Timing of ordering of inventory items is of very great importance in Materials Requirement Planning. Uncertainties in timing can have an adverse effect on the system performance. Most often the lead time variation contribute ...

Checkpointing is a technique widely used in parallel/distributed computers for rollback error recovery. Checkpointing is defined as the coordinated saving of process state information at specified time instances. Checkpoints ...

The last decade has seen the growth of knowledge based industries and knowledge work. It has also witnessed the ever-increasing onslaught of competition and change.Intangibles have become increasingly important factors in ...