Exotic forest pests cost China and the United States billions of dollars each year. Current regulatory systems worldwide are overwhelmed with the increasing volume of international trade. Trade in nursery stock, wood products, pallets and dunnage have proven the most common means of transport for exotic forest pests. Despite our best efforts, pests such as chestnut blight, gypsy moth, Dutch elm...

Parallel Associative Search by Use of a Volume Holographic Memory p. 78 Optically Reconfigurable Gate Array p. 84 Image Retrieval with Relevance Feedback p. 85 Image Compression and Coding Moving Object Tracking in Video p. 95 Assessing the Performance Effects of Data Compression for SAR Imagery p. 102 Adaptive Image Coding with Robust Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization p. 109 A Const...

The industry and retail chain use a huge number of low cost assets such as pallets, crates, plastic boxes... Until now the lack of affordable technology, in comparison with the cost of a single asset, stopped efforts to manage them in open loop supply chain (where the assets is not coming back to sender after usage). As part of a project to implement an affordable and efficient communication te...

Autonomous robots need to perceive and represent their environments and act accordingly. Using simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods, robots can build maps of the environment which are efficient for localization and path planning as long as the environment remains unchanged. However, facility logistics environments are not static because pallets and other obstacles are stored tem...

Markov chains with periodic graphs arise frequently in a wide range of modelling experiments. Application areas range from exible manufacturing systems in which pallets are treated in a cyclic manner to computer communication networks. The primary goal of this paper is to show how advantage may be taken of this property to reduce the amount of computer memory and computation time needed to comp...

New logistics models – physical internet, pooling, control towers, reusable containers management – require an item-level traceability of physical shipping units that is independent of the partners involved in the supply chains. Current information systems architectures match this need by interfacing heterogeneous systems with each other. Such architecture can’t meet the challenges brought by n...

This study presents mixed integer programming (MIP) models for production lot-sizing problems with distribution costs using unit load devices such as pallets and containers. Problems that integrate production lot-sizing decisions and loading of the products in vehicles (bins) are also modelled, in which constraints such as weight limits, volume restrictions or the value of the cargo loaded in t...

In order to achieve better postures and decrease musculoskeletal risks adequate design of hand/box couplings for manual materials handling (MMH) are still needed. No studies evaluating upper limb movement thorough direct measurements during box handling in workplace were identified in the literature. In this study we describe the types of grip and movements adopted by ten workers when handling ...

The use of RFID (radio-frequency identification) in the retail supply chain and at the point of sale (POS) holds much promise to revolutionize the process by which products pass from manufacturer to retailer to consumer. The basic idea of RFID is a tiny computer chip placed on pallets, cases, or items. The data on the chip can be read using a radio beam. RFID is a newer technology than bar code...

Capillary electrophoresis is a technique for the separation and analysis of chemical compounds. Techniques adopted from the microchip technology knowledge have led to recent developments of electrophoresis system with integration on microchip. Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis (μCE) systems offer a series of advantages as easy integration for Lab-on-achip applications, high performance, porta...