A component of the Land Grant committee structure to coordinate research in agriculture and related fields, NEC-63 was established in 1985 to foster quality research and dialogue on the economics of commodity promotion. The Institute's mission is to enhance the overall understanding of economic and policy issues associated with commodity promotion programs. An understanding of these issues is c...

A new type of optical fiber called heterogeneous multicore fiber (heterogeneous MCF) is proposed towards future large-capacity optical-transport networks and the design principle is described. In the heterogeneous MCF, not only identical but also non-identical cores, which are single-mode in isolation of each other, are arranged so that cross-talk between any pair of cores becomes sufficiently ...

abstract in this paper an attempt is made to determine the most suitable agricultural commodities to be adopted for establishing a futures market in iran. two different approaches are adopted: the first involves identifying factors that contribute significantly to the success or failure of existing agricultural commodities futures contracts in established futures markets. the second involves si...

The production of soft drinks involves two main stages: syrup preparation and bottling. To obtain the lots sequence in the bottling stage, three approaches are studied. They are based on the sub-tour elimination constraints used in mathematical models for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem. Two of the mathematical models are from the literature and use classical constraints. The third mo...

This paper focuses on a generic model for service network design, which includes asset positioning and utilization through constraints on asset availability at terminals. We denote these relations as “design-balance constraints” and focus on the design-balanced capacitated multi-commodity network design model, a generalization of the capacitated multi-commodity network design model generally us...

The number of residential devices that are capable of using more than one kind of energy carrier is increasing. Managing and efficiently utilizing such multi-commodity devices is a complex task. However, such approaches allow for more energy-efficient future residential environments. Therefore, suitable energy management systems are needed that support more than one energy carrier. In this pape...

An upper boundary point for a demand vector is defined to be a system state vector for which the system capacity is equal to the demand vector, and an increase in its unsaturated components leads to at least one unit of increase in system capacity. System capacity of a singlecommodity stochastic-flow network is the maximum flow from the source node to the sink node of the network. Extending the...

This paper discusses necessary components of a GPU-assisted traffic classification method, which is capable of multi-Gbps speeds on commodity hardware. The majority of the traffic classification is pushed to the GPU to offload the CPU, which then may serve other processing intensive tasks, e.g., traffic capture. The paper presents two massively parallelizable algorithms suitable for GPUs. The f...