Rather than using special-purpose hardware routers, software routers enable routing on commodity platforms. However, even with faster processors and multi-core platforms, the performance of software routers on commodity platforms today does not scale with high speed. We identify the limitations of commodity platforms by comparing them to high-end routers. In high end routers, each line card has...

Supply chain excellence has a real huge impact on business strategy. Building supply chains (SCs) as flexible system represents one of the most exciting opportunities to create value. This requires integrated decision making amongst autonomous chain partners with effective decision knowledge sharing among them. The key to success lies in knowing which decision has more impact on the supply chai...

Futures contract is one of the most important derivatives that is used in financial markets in all over the world to buy or sell an asset or commodity in the future. Pricing of this tool depends on expected price of asset or commodity at the maturity date. According to this, theoretical futures pricing models try to find this expected price in order to use in the futures contract. So in this ar...

In this paper a relative attitude determination solution of a formation of two vehicles with multiple constraints is shown. The solution for the relative attitude between the two vehicles is obtained only using line-of-sight measurements between them and common (unknown) objects observed by both vehicles. The constraints used in the solution are formed from triangles on the vector observations....

In today’s competitive market place, companies seek an efficient structure of supply chain so as to provide customers with highest value and achieve competitive advantage. This requires a broader perspective than just the borders of an individual company during a supply chain. This paper investigates an aggregate production planning problem integrated with distribution issues in a supply chain ...

Allocation processes|the division of some commodity among multiple agents|are fundamental to social interactions in various arenas. Examples include wealth/income distribution in populations, natural resource exploitation, market share for competing corporations, satellite bandwidth division among many users, and CPU time usage by multiple software agents running simultaneously. In the case whe...

In this paper, we consider the problem of collision-free motion planning for multiple nonholonomic planar vehicles. Each vehicle is capable of moving at constant speed along paths with bounded curvature, and is aware of the position and heading of other vehicles within a certain sensing radius. No other information exchange is required between vehicles. We propose a spatially decentralized, coo...

This paper presents a comprehensive overview of recent developments in formation control multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Several commonly used structures and approaches for coordination are listed, the advantages deficiencies each method discussed. The difficulties confronted synthesis practical AUVs system clarified analyzed terms characteristic AUVs, adverse environments, comm...