Graphical displays which show inter--sample distances are important for the interpretation and presentation of multivariate data. Except when the displays are two--dimensional, however, they are often difficult to visualize as a whole. A device, based on multidimensional unfolding, is described...

The authors present basis of simulation usage in managerial decisionsupport focusing on the supply chain processes. In the beginning the need for simulationis presented, then advantages and disadvantages of simulation experiments and thesimulation tools juxtaposition. Finally the chances of...

This paper examines the effect of salvage market on strategic technology choice and capacity investment decision of two firms that compete on the amount of output they produce under demand uncertainty. A game theoretic model applies such that in the first stage firms choose their production...

We introduce a computer program which calculates an agent’s optimal behavior according to Case-based Decision Theory (Gilboa and Schmeidler, 1995) and use it to test CBDT against a benchmark set of problems from the psychological literature on human classification learning (Shepard et al.,...

Number of theories and opinions regarding globalisation is overwhelming. Economically approaching this matter it may be said that globalisation is the opposite of protectionism and economic nationalism manifesting a good relationship with the free market and neo liberalism having common...

This paper aims to provide support offered by SQL Server for XML. languages run serverside scripting (ASP, ASP.Net, PHP or JSP), are already mature technology today, providing an opportunity to develop complex applications for Web ului.Necesitatea can communicate with all connected devices via...

In connection with the exchange of data and information on the Internet talking about EDI, XML and UDDI. I can say that EDI is international standard for exchanging documents and computerized and appeared through the years 1960 and can be considered the ancestor Electronic Commerce and also talk...

The first step in the Web usage mining process consists of collecting the relevant Web data, which will be analyzed to provide useful information about the users’ behavior. There are two main sources of data for Web usage mining, corresponding to the two software systems interacting during a...

The book "Mathematics and Archaeology", consisting of 25 chapters by a range of international scholars in archaeology, will be published by Chapman & Hall in 2014. The present document, written as an invited Epilogue to the book, recounts the rediscovery of the book 275 years later by an...

Given a nonparametric regression model, we assume that the number of covariates $d\rightarrow\infty$ but only some of these covariates are relevant for the model. Our goal is to identify the relevant covariates and to obtain some information about the structure of the model. We propose a new...