To improve the sustainability of shipping industry, a practice establishing new type alliance based on blockchain has been implemented. In this practice, following question emerges: How will lines achieve sustainable profit improvement? This paper focuses freight decision-making problem by constructing multi-round joint-quotation strategy. also demonstrates potential impact joint quotation stra...

Nowadays, strict finite size effects must be taken into account in condensed matter problems when treated through models based on lattices or graphs. On the other hand, the cases of directed bonds or links are known to be highly relevant in topics ranging from ferroelectrics to quotation networks. Combining these two points leads us to examine finite size random matrices. To obtain basic materi...

A quotation from Ben Okri’s Birds of Heaven – written in the context of a Nigeria wrestling with postcolonial nation building – opens James Robertson’s Joseph Knight.[1] This theme of a nation facing its own historical truths points to the drive of Robertson’s historical novel: to open up the established national narrative of Scotland to the black Atlantic issues of slavery, rebellion, race and...

The quotation above has led to the commonly held view that all bacteria will eventually become resistant to any antibiotic given enough time and exposure. However not all bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics at the same rate (and perhaps some species of bacteria may never develop resistance to certain antibiotics). And some bacteria that have been labeled “resistant” are not, in any clini...

We consider the dynamic order acceptance and capacity planning problem under limited regular and non-regular resources. The goal consists of maximizing the expected profits of the accepted projects within a finite problem horizon. Capacity planning is a useful tool to support tactical decisions such as due-date quotation, price quotation and hiring non-regular capacity. The way the projects are...