The eProcurement planning is crucial to reduce purchase cost while selecting the right suppliers and it contributes to improve corporate competitiveness. This eProcurement planning research describes a framework for the integration of a knowledge-based system capable of identifying a goal model from a Primitive Model. The Primitive Model is screened by the screening factors reflecting the purch...

States Supreme Court held that an ordinance mandating a ceiling on rents mobile home park owners can charge does not constitute a Fifth Amendment taking by the government and, therefore, does not entitle the park owners to compensation. Background In 1978, the State of Califoniia enacted the Mobilehome Residency Law, which limits a mobile home park owner's ability to terminate the tenancy of a ...

The traveling purchaser problem is a generalization of the traveling salesman problem with applications in a wide range of areas including network design and scheduling The input consists of a set of markets and a set of products Each market o ers a price for each product and there is a cost associated with traveling from one market to another The problem is to purchase all products by visiting...

The Province of the Punjab underwent a number of attempts to decentralize the health sector in the 1990s. Among the most important were the decentralization of financial management within the district, the Sheikhupura PHC Pilot Project, the establishment of the District Health Authorities and District Health Management Teams, the creation of semi-autonomous hospitals and the programme of Distri...

Abstract This article focuses on the enforcement of security rights over seagoing ships, aircraft, and trains in several international treaties. It contains a largely chronological overview relevant instruments their scope application. In addition, this contribution addresses both conflict-of-laws provisions substantive law remedies at secured creditor's disposal, including procedural aspects s...

Abstract In Phillips v , Lord Westbury stated that, against a bona fide purchaser faced with an “equity” to rescind, “the Court will not interfere”. This has been interpreted mean that purchasers of even equitable interest shall take free prior equities. Yet the distinction between “equities” and interests been, remains, uncertain; some have therefore questioned intent behind Phillips. paper el...

Heterogeneous one-class collaborative filtering (HOCCF) is a recently studied important recommendation problem, which consists of different types of users’ one-class feedback such as browses and purchases. In HOCCF, we aim to fully exploit the heterogenous feedback and learn users’ preferences so as to make a personalized and ranking-oriented recommendation for each user. For HOCCF, we can appl...

The traveling purchaser problem (TPP) is the problem of determining a tour of a purchaser that needs to buy several items in different shops such that the total amount of travel and purchase costs is minimized. We study a version of the problem with additional constraints, namely, a limit on the maximum number of markets to be visited, a limit on the number of items bought per market and where ...