Calculating total cast of bank resources procurement methods which include current -free loan deposit, saving interest-free loan deposit, regular and net short-term investment deposit, long-term investment deposit and surety bond cash deposit and presenting their optimal integration require precise scientific studies. Hence, this study is an attempt to know which methods are the best optimal in...

While biomass has been recognized as an important renewable energy source which has a range of positive impacts on the economy, environment, and society, the existence of feedstock seasonality and risk of service disruptions at collection facilities potentially compromises the efficiency and reliability of the energy supply system. In this paper, we consider reliable supply chain design for bio...

Consider a linear program with uncertain objective coefficients, for which we have a Bayesian prior. We can collect information to improve our understanding of these coefficients, but this may be expensive, giving us a separate problem of optimizing the collection of information to improve the quality of the solution relative to the true cost coefficients. We formulate this information collecti...

Using the example of substitution of peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) collection to bone marrow harvest for autologous transplantation in cancer patients, our study attempts to illustrate how economic assessment, starting at an early stage of medical innovation, can influence the development and diffusion process of a new technological procedure whose optimal design has not yet been establishe...

A better Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management plans are required for developing urban cities in India. Further to facilitate MSW management, the enhanced options are to be provided for initial functions of MSW such as collection and transportation. The environmental and cost effectiveness of the functions would be achieved and analysed with adopting scientific technology like Geographical Inf...

Object modeling from a casual collection of images has found a range of applications including product advertisement over the web and visualization of museum objects. We have first analysed the current techniques in the context of a three-dimensional complexity space: Image collection cost, data storage requirements, and information processing complexity. It is clear that none of them is optima...

Privatization of municipal solid waste (MSW) collection can improve service quality and reduce cost. To reduce the risk of an incapable company serving an entire collection area and to establish a competitive market, a large collection area should be divided into two or more subregions, with each subregion served by a different company. The MSW subregion districting is generally done manually, ...

Cost and availability of a database often impede research while the lack of compatibility inhibits collaboration by making merging of databases difficult or impossible. The Global Pregnancy Collaboration (CoLab) has promoted harmonization of studies and standardized data collection to facilitate pregnancy and placental research. Its online database, COLLECT, allows collection of minimal and opt...

This paper studies hierarchical configuration of distributed systems for achieving optimized system performance. A distributed system consists of a collection of local processes which are distributed over the network of processors and cooperate to perform some functions. A hierarchical approach is to group and organize the distributed processes into a logical hierarchy of multiple levels, so as...

the most costly operation in the oil exploration is the well network drilling. one of the most effectiveways to reduce the cost of drilling networks is decreasing the number of the required wells byselecting the optimum situation of the rig placement. in this paper, balas algorithm is used as a modelfor optimizing the cost function in oil well network, where the vertical and directional drillin...