Commodity trading is one of the most popular resources owning to its eminent predictable return on investment to earn money through trading. The trading includes all kinds of commodities like agricultural goods such as wheat, coffee, cocoa etc., and hard products like gold, rubber, crude oils etc.,. The investment decision can be made very easily with the help of the proposed model. The propose...

We consider in this paper a two echelon timber procurement system in which the first echelon consists of multiple harvesting blocks and the second echelon consists of multiple mills (e.g., sawmills), both distributed geographically. Demand is put forward by mills in the form of volumes of logs of specific length and species. Due to the impact of log handling and sorting on cut-to-length harvest...

We study the equilibrium quality under user uncertainty in a multi-commodity selfish routing game with many types of users, where each user type experiences a different level of uncertainty. We consider a new model of uncertainty where each user over or under-estimates their congestion costs by a multiplicative constant. We present a variety of theoretical results showing that when users under-...

We investigate the advantages of a stereo, multi-spectral acquisition system for material classification in ground-level landscape images. Our novel system allows us to acquire high-resolution, multispectral stereo pairs using commodity photographic equipment. Given additional spectral information we obtain better classification of vegetation classes than the standard RGB case. We test the syst...

In this paper, we study a multi-dimensional commodity covering problem, which we encountered as a subproblem in optimizing large scale transportation networks in logistics. The problem asks for a selection of containers for transporting a given set of commodities, each commodity having different extensions of properties such as weight or volume. Each container can be selected multiple times and...

The focus of this work is the computation of efficient strategies for commodity trading in a multi-market environment. In today’s "global economy" commodities are often bought in one location and then sold (right away, or after some storage period) in different markets. Thus, a trading decision in one location must be based on expectations about future price curves in all other relevant markets...

â â â  â â â  abstract â  using a structural var with block exogeneity, diagonality and identifying restrictions, this paper analyzes: first, the macroeconomic linkages among the oil price, u.s. output, interest rate, money supply, general price level and exchange rate and second, the relationships of the macroeconomic variables with the price indices of ten international nonfuel commodity grou...

This paper describes the CECA VisLab Tiled Display—a reconfigurable, multi-screen, multi-computer, distributed image display system with zoom and pan functions. The project software utilizes distributed computing algorithms to control a parallel system to render high resolution images and scientific data on multiple displays. The system extends open source software to provide a large tiled imag...

With the remarkable development of international trade, global commodity circulation has grown significantly. To accomplish commodity circulation among various regions and countries, multi-modal transportation scheme has been widely adopted by a large number of companies. Meanwhile, according to the relevant statistics, the international logistics costs reach up to approximate 30-50% of the tot...