inventory model,   backorder   buyer ,   vendor,   lot for lot policy In this paper, an inventory model for two-stage supply chain is investigated. A supply chain with single vendor and single buyer is considered. We assume that shortage as a backorder is allowed for the buyer and the vendor makes the production set up every time the buyer places an order and supplies on a lot for lot basis...

SAST for security vulnerabilities should be a mandatory requirement for all IT organizations that develop or procure applications. Although the market is relatively new and consolidating, enterprises must adopt SAST technologies and processes because the need is strategic. Enterprises should use a short-term, tactical approach to vendor selection and contract negotiation due to the relative imm...

P research has studied how the selection and use of control portfolios in software projects is based on environmental and task characteristics. However, little research has examined the consequences of control mode choices on project performance. This paper reports on a study that addresses this issue in the context of outsourced software projects. In addition, we propose that boundary-spanning...

contractor selection is one of the most important problem in supply chain and itsstrongly effect on firm`s performance. because a significant amount of auniversity`s budget assigns to construction contracts, contractor selection is animportant problem for the financial status of universities. since contractor selectionis a multi-criteria decision making problem (mcdm), lots of methods proposed ...

An adaptive k-out-of-N Priced Oblivious Transfer (POT) scheme is a two-party protocol between a vendor and a buyer. The vendor sells a set of messages m1, . . . ,mN with prices p1, . . . , pN . In each transfer phase i = 1, . . . , k, the buyer chooses a selection value σi ∈ {1, . . . ,N } and interacts with the vendor to buy message mσi in such a way that the vendor does not learn σi and the b...