Based on the total production process of iron and steel plant, and with the general design requirements for the major operating units, the major operating sites’ overall layout relationship of the iron and steel plant is determined. Based on the production workshops, auxiliary plants, power plants, transportation facilities, the functions of departments, subsidiary production and living service...

This paper presents the results of our PhD work recently completed at the research institute of transportation and logistics CRET-LOG, University of the Mediterranean (Aix – Marseille II, France). We apply Morgan and Hunt’s (1994) 5 “commitment – trust theory of relationship marketing” to a new arena : vertical eco-marketing and reverse distribution channels preparing recycling activities. Our ...

Ever since the dawning of computers and its related technologies, railway has been one of the major application domains in which wide variety of information and communication technologies are successfully utilized. Substantial efforts have been made in such fields as transportation planning, passenger information services (including seat reservations), train control, and train traffic managemen...

In most web applications, the attributes of entity classes directly determine the content of corresponding view forms. In addition, these entity classes often encapsulate constraints on associated properties. For example, a User entity class may have an email property with constraints on the form of the address; consequently, the view form for creating/updating users should include an email fie...