We examine cooperative games in supply-chain management termed Inventory Games. Supply-chain management has non-cooperative and cooperative interactions between the participating players. We provide a concise survey of cooperative inventory games in the form of extensions on two basic problems. For deterministic games, Economic Order Quantity-like policies with joint replenishment are of primar...

The evolution towards the information society of the 21 century is affecting people’s lives, communities, businesses, organizations and nations of the whole world. The borders of this exploding revolution are being reshaped by powerful new ITs such as Internet, ATM, and wireless communications. Communications today dominate the evolution and are expressed in agriculture not only as wired farms ...

This article is mainly about borders that have tremendous influence on our daily life, although many of them exist and act mostly unrecognized. In this article the first objective will be to address more generally the relation between university and society or industry, borders within universities, borders in thinking and the huge amount of misunderstandings and losses resulting from these obvi...

Abstract Trade in processed small pelagic fish and informal cross-border trade (ICBT) are linked to livelihood activities West Africa. Although these products being traded informally Africa, research on this topic is limited. This study builds a multi-partner supported ‘FishTrade’ initiative Africa illuminate the volume value of across Ghana–Togo–Benin (GTB) borders, socio-demographic determina...

The possible illicit transfer of weapons-of-massdestruction (WMD) components and know-how across NIS borders is one of the most pressing proliferation threats coming from the territory of the former Soviet Union. In the circumstances created by collapsing economies, weak government institutions, and still nascent export control systems, the considerable technological and human resources located...

Color processing imposes a new constraint on stereo vision algorithms: The assumption of constant color on object surfaces used to align local correlation windows with object boundaries has improved the accuracy of recent window based stereo algorithms significantly. While several algorithms have been presented that work with adaptive correlation windows defined by color similarity, only a few ...

the performance of women agribusiness cooperatives in oyo state, nigeria was assessed in this study. the study employed a multi-stage sampling technique to select 6 women cooperative groups (aggregating to 175 individuals); 36 individual women; and 4 institutions across 6 lgas in two agricultural zones of the state. findings show that majority (55.6%) of the respondents belong to processing org...

This article is the first in a series that will examine the complexities associated with defense acquisition decision-making in the twenty-first century. Budget constraints, political dynamics, cooperative alliances, and changing requirements pose particular— and often unique—challenges. This series of articles is intended to offer systemic “models” for effecting good acquisition decisions, pro...