Inventory management is concerned with matching supply with demand and a central problem in Operations Management. The problem is to find the amount to be produced or purchased in order to maximize the total expected profit or minimize the total expected cost. Over the past two decades, several variations of the formula appeared, mostly in trade...

This problem may also have socioeconomic implications. Infection commonly results in prolonged use of antibiotics, multiple...

This book addresses the interests of a large community of researchers in the fields of XML-based annotation techniques and corpus-based language technology. It covers the most significant recent developments in this field, from multi-layered mark-up and standards to theoretical formalisms to applications. The contributions are based on research...

Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world. The most popular current example is World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online game with eleven million subscribers. However, other virtual worlds, notably Second Life, are not...

Your investing options aren’t confined to stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Those are merely the most common investments and, as recent history proves, certainly not the safest or most profitable. How to Make Money in Alternative Investments introduces you to more than 40 places to invest your money outside the...

Preface.- List of contributors.- 1Informatics for Infectious Disease Research and Control.- 2 Bioinformatics of Microbial Sequences.- 3 Mining Databases for Microbial Gene Sequences.- 4 Comparative Genomics of...

In recent years, innovative technologies have lead to rapid progression and accelerated research studies within the field of end-user computing. Computational Advancements in End-User Technologies: Emerging Models and Frameworks contains leading research and practices into the advancement, significance, and comprehensive nature of...

Strategic intelligence (SI) has mostly been used in military settings, but its worth goes well beyond that limited role. It has become invaluable for improving any organization's strategic decision making process. The author of Strategic Intelligence: Business Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, and Knowledge Management recognizes synergies...

These are the proceedings of the 18th international conference on domain decomposition methods in science and engineering, held in Jerusalem, January 12-17, 2008. Domain decomposition methods are iterative methods for solving the often very large linear or nonlinear systems of algebraic equations that arise when various problems in...

Siemens AG (siemens.com) is a German-based 150-year old diversified and global manufacturer. With 484,000 employees, Siemens does business in 190 countries and has 600 manufacturing and research and development facilities in over 50 countries. Its product lines and services are extremely varied, including communication and information,...