RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) is a key emerging technology for supply-chain monitoring and detection of counterfeit and grey-market goods. The most prevalent RFID tags are, however, simply “wireless barcodes,” themselves vulnerable to cloning and counterfeiting. While continuous monitoring can, in principle, detect cloning attacks, real-world supply chains often contain significant blin...

The ability to make prediction based on online searches in various contexts is gaining substantial interest in both research and practice. This study investigates a novel application of correlated online searches in predicting stock performance across supply chain partners. If two firms are economically dependent through supply chain relationship and if information related to both firms diffuse...

The next generation of Internet applications is emerging: e-services. By an e-service, we understand an autonomous software component that is uniquely identified by an URI and that can be accessed by using standard Internet protocols like XML, SOAP, or HTTP. An e-service may combine several applications that a user needs, such as the different pieces of a supplychain architecture. For the end-u...

The fundamental objective of the Container Security Initiative (CSI) is to engage both so-called ‘mega-ports’ (ports sending the highest volume of ocean going container traffic into the US) and the national governments where these ports are located in a way that will facilitate the pre-screening of outbound containers destined to the US. The emerging issue of security as a key factor in global ...

This paper reports on the goals and first results of the CAWICOMS project. This EUfunded project has two main goals: The first one is providing technologies for the development of customer-adaptive Web-interfaces for the configuration of mass-customised products. The second one is the integration of configuration systems along the supplychain. Within this paper we first motivate the demand for ...

Although collaboration and performance measurement are widely recognized as critical for increasing sustainability in supply chains, little is known about how comprehensively firms are currently measuring their supplychain carbon emissions (or Scope 3).Wedevelop away toassess howcompletefirms' reports of Scope 3 emissions are, bycomparing them tobenchmarks based on Environmental Input-Output Li...

MinneTAC is an agent designed to compete in the SupplyChain Trading Agent Competition [4]. It is also designed to support the needs of a group of researchers, each of whom is interested in different decision problems related to the competition scenario. The design of MinneTAC breaks out each basic behavior into a separate, configurable component. Dependencies between components are almost non-e...