Article history: Received 30 September 2010 Received in revised form 23 May 2011 Accepted 5 June 2011 Available online 8 July 2011

A major issue in supply chain inventory management is the coordination of inventory policies adopted by different members in a supply chain including suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, etc. This paper presents a fractal-based approach for inventory management in order to minimize inventory costs and smooth material flows between supply chain members while responsively meeting customer dema...

Purpose. The purpose of the article is determining possibilities fractal approach, as one that enables not only flexibility and viability, but also, management efficiency improvement, new competencies company formation, self-renewal ability formation conflicts interest between structural subdivisions in complex vertically integrated structures elimination, to organization implementation organic...

A multiband double square loop antenna with fractal concept is proposed. The design is based on an initial model of fractal geometry and a double square slot antenna structure. The initial model of fractal geometry influences to the second frequency band and it will be carefully investigated. The radiation patterns of the proposed antenna are still similarly to bidirectional radiation pattern. ...

Image compression is an essential technology in multimedia and digital communication fields. Fractal image compression is a potential image compression scheme due to its potential high compression ratio, fast decompression and multi resolution properties. Fractal image compression utilizes the existence of self symmetry of images. Since Bransley gave the concept of fractal image compression in ...

A new ultawideband circular fractal antenna with notched-band characteristics is presented. A notched-band characteristic is achieved by employing a U-shape slot in 50 Ω feed lines. The ultra-wideband impedance matching and compact size have been obtained by using CPW-feed technique and the fractal concept. The measured result of proposed fractal antenna exhibits the ultra wideband characterist...

Kolmogorov introduced a concept of ε-entropy to analyze information in classical continuous system. The fractal dimension of geometrical sets was introduced by Mandelbrot as a new criterion to analyze the complexity of these sets. The ε-entropy and the fractal dimension of a state in general quantum system were introduced by one of the present authors in order to characterize chaotic properties...