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in today's globalization, an effective integration of production and distribution plans into a unified framework is crucial for attaining competitive advantage. this paper addresses an integrated multi-product and multi-time period production/distribution planning problem for a two-echelon supply chain subject to the real-world variables and constraints. it is assumed that all transportations a...

Federated Identity Management is an effective technology that allows multiple organizations to share resources. Deployments of the protocol Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) practically require the pre-exchange of aggregated metadata files, making federations to fixed trust boundaries. Dynamic metadata exchange between identity provider and service provider via a trusted third party (TT...

The purpose of this paper is to present a framework and a suitable method for selecting the best logistics supplier. In general, many quantitative and qualitative criteria should be considered simultaneously for making the decision of logistics supplier selection. The information about judging the performance of logistics suppliers will come from customers’ opinions, experts’ opinions and the o...

This paper describes a conceptual model for attribute aggregation that allows a service provider (SP) to authorise a user’s access request based on attributes asserted by multiple identity providers (IdPs), when the user is known by different identities at each of the IdPs. The user only needs to authenticate to one of the IdPs and the SP is given an overall level of assurance (LoA) about the a...

MARCH 2003 The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada would like to emphasize that a complete medical examination should include a breast and pelvic examination. The following recommendations are made to physicians regarding clinical examination in the office and hospital setting: 1. It is a reasonable and acceptable practice to perform a breast and pelvic examination without the...