This paper applies a routing strategy based on Tarantula Mating Behavior as proposed by the authors, Bandyopadhyay and Bhattacharya [1], on a manufacturing network. The particular behavior which is of interest is that the female Tarantula spider sometimes eats the male Tarantula just after mating for satisfying immediate need for food or for genetic purpose. This interesting behavior has been s...

As the offshoring becomes more widespread, business practitioners outsource their activities to overseas countries. Although there is a wealth of academic literature examining outsourcing and offshoring, there is little literature that addresses the current outsourcing decision most firms facing, which is where to outsource. Given multi-attribute nature of offshore location selection, this pape...

A wireless body area network (WBAN) is made up of small health-monitoring sensors that are implanted or placed on the human body. These collect and transmit medical physiological data . WBANs linked to servers observe health patients. Because its ability continuously remotely monitor patients' health, this type can save critical patients.WBAN being used establish communication links between the...

Agent-oriented methodologies are an important means for constructing agent-based systems in a controlled repeatable form. However, agent-oriented methodologies have not received much acceptance in industrial environments, which can be partially explained by drawbacks in current agent-oriented methodologies, mainly in terms of applicability and comprehensiveness. Specifically, Gaia, one of the m...

We use detailed numerical simulations and the υ Andromedae planetary system as a template to evaluate the capability of the ESA Cornerstone Mission GAIA in detecting and measuring multiple planets around solar-type stars in the neighborhood of the Solar System. For the outer two planets of the υ Andromedae system, GAIA high-precision global astrometric measurements would provide estimates of th...

According to the current European and Italian scenario related urban regeneration, cultural landscape heritage valorization is being enhanced by activation of innovative processes new emerging approaches. These involve development methodologies tools that can address decision-making based on creative practices consistent with a concept named “low-entropy economy” in this paper. The low-entropy ...

The paper presents an approach for modelling the planning processes in supply networks at various partners, on different horizons and aggregation levels. After introducing an overall planning framework, we apply the Gaia agent-oriented analysis and design methodology to construct an organizational model for supply networks that operate in markets of customized mass products. The paper presents ...

The coming GAIA Cornerstone mission by ESA will provide micro-arcsec astrometry, ∼10 bands photometry and far-red spectroscopy for a huge number of stars in the Galaxy (109). GAIA spectroscopy will cover the range 8480–8740 Å which includes the CaII triplet and the head of the Paschen series. In this paper we address the diagnostic potential of this wavelength range toward detection of peculiar...

The ideas of the Gaia hypothesis from the 1960s are today largely included in global ecology and Earth system sciences. The interdependence between biosphere, oceans, atmosphere and geosphere is well-established by data from global monitoring. Nevertheless the theory underlying the holistic view of the homeostatic Earth has remained obscure. Here the foundations of Gaia theory are examined from...

I outline a procedure for calibrating the Gaia spectral parameter estimation algorithms, in particular GSP-Phot. It assumes that synthetic spectra accurately reproduce small changes in the APs. In contrast, they may not accurately reflect large changes in the APs or they may have systematic offsets in the absolute fluxes. It is these changes that the outlined calibration procedure can correct f...