Big data refers to a term that is used to describe vast amounts of data that have multiple kinds of Vs: velocity, variety, and volume. It could be semi-structured, unstructured, or even structured, making data analysis difficult. New architecture, methodologies, algorithms, and analytics are...

We present a unified analysis for single-machine scheduling problems in which the actual job processing times are controlled by either a linear or a convex resource allocation function and also vary concurrently depending on either the job's position in the sequence and/or on the total...

The research work on supply-chain management has primarily focused on the study of materials flow and very little work has been done on the study of upstream flow of money. In this paper we study the flow of money in a supply chain from the viewpoint of a supply chain partner who receives money...