How to allocate a resource efficiently and fairly attracts the attention of both researchers and practitioners. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been brought to bear on its solution. The existing literature applies Gini coefficient to measure the fairness in the resource allocation process. Howev...

During the time of building enterprise information System (EIS), agility of enterprise can' t be improved entirely just through implementing the system such as: ERP, PDM, CAPP and so on. There is an information gap between bottom manufacturing equipment and the top EIS, that makes against elevating ...

eCRM ties customer relationship management with e-business. Very often, eCRM is interfaced with other information systems to form a seamless integration and interchange of information both inside and outside an organization-a work flow management system. This integration of business partners, suppli...

The largest solvent-extraction plant in the world at the time, the Nchanga Copper Operation, was in Zambia. The first commercial process using solvent extraction for the refining of the platinum-group metals was in South Africa. More recently, the Southern African region has seen the implementation ...

A synchronous grammar based on the formalism of context-free grammar was developed by generalizing the first component of production that models the source text. Unlike other synchronous grammars, the grammar allows multiple target productions to be associated to a single production rule which can b...