Basics of Supply-Chain Management IELM 4200‚ Fall 2011 Dr. Emily Au Dept. of IELM‚ HKUST Note02: Basics of OM 1 What is a supply chain? • A supply chain is a goal-oriented network of _________ and ____________ used to deliver goods and services to customers. Fundamental activity: flow of entities through processes Note02: Basics of OM 2 Key performance measures • Throughput (TH): the rate at which entities are processed by the system. • Work in Process (WIP):
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CNT5106C Computer Networks‚ Summer 2010 Instructor: Prof. Ahmed Helmy Homework #1 On the Internet Architecture‚ Elementary Queuing Theory and Application Layer I. Internet and layered protocol architecture: Q1. (5 points) In the layered protocol architecture the transport layer functionality includes congestion control and error recovery (e.g.‚ retransmission). One suggested that this functionality should be done strictly at the end points (i.e.‚ at the hosts) without aid from the network. Do you
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Random Early Detection (RED) [21] has the potential to overcome the problems discovered in Drop Tail. RED is a congestion avoidance algorithm in the network routers/switches proposed by Floyd and Jacobson [13]. Random Early Detect‚ also called Random Early Drop (RED) was designed with the objectives to • minimize packet loss and queuing delay. • congestion avoidance. • avoid global synchronization of sources. • maintain high link utilization. • remove biases against bursty sources. • bound on
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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction As the world turns to a global village characterized by intense and ever increasing competition‚ operation bank managers continue to experience wrenching changes‚ which they must keep up with for survival. Bank customers have also become increasingly demanding. Today‚ they require high quality‚ low price and immediate service delivery and tomorrow‚ they want additional components of value from their chosen banker. Since service delivery in banks is personal‚ customers
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Random variables whose moments are also random variables. Compute the probability density function of the random variable X that has (a) a lognormal distribution with zero mean where the variance is exponentially distributed with mean λ−1 . (b) a Poisson distribution whose mean λ is exponentially distributed with mean μ. (iv) Let X denote the number of packets in a flow F and let Y denote the number of packets that are sampled from that original flow F . The conditional distribution of Y ‚ given
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COMM 399 Final Examination - Feb 2013 Page 1 of 9 F INAL E XAMINATION COMM 399-204 Feb 25‚ 13:00-14:30pm‚ 2012 INSTRUCTIONS a) Do not turn to the second page before the invigilator announces the start. b) Write ALL your answers in your Exam. c) This is a closed book exam. However‚ you can use one piece of cheating sheet (both pages can be used). You are not permitted to use computers‚ internet‚ or cell phone during the exam. d) The examination takes 1.5 hours. There are three questions
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Dynamic Pricing in the Airline Industry R. Preston McAfee and Vera te Velde California Institute of Technology Abstract: Dynamic price discrimination adjusts prices based on the option value of future sales‚ which varies with time and units available. This paper surveys the theoretical literature on dynamic price discrimination‚ and confronts the theories with new data from airline pricing behavior. Correspondence to: R. Preston McAfee‚ 100 Baxter Hall‚ California Institute of Technology‚
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Though‚ as previously mentioned‚ he had already chosen his ideal mark‚ that being Andrea Poisson‚ and consequently would have had no need for the additional candidates; perhaps he accounted for failure to convince Poisson by contacting the other businessmen as a contingency plan. Posing as a Government Official he secretly met with the five businessmen‚ Poisson included‚ and made certain‚ through clever wording‚ to remove any lingering suspicions. He excused the blatant secrecy
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TLFeBOOK FUNDAMENTALS OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS T.T. Soong State University of New York at Buffalo‚ Buffalo‚ New York‚ USA TLFeBOOK TLFeBOOK FUNDAMENTALS OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS TLFeBOOK TLFeBOOK FUNDAMENTALS OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS T.T. Soong State University of New York at Buffalo‚ Buffalo‚ New York‚ USA TLFeBOOK Copyright 2004 John Wiley & Sons Ltd‚ The Atrium‚ Southern G ate‚ Chichester‚ West
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Exam Name___________________________________ Instructions: Read all the questions carefully and show all your work for full credit. All answers must be supported by correct work to receive full credit. SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question. Solve the problem. 1) Multiple-choice questions on a test each have 4 possible answers‚ one of which is correct. Assume that you guess the answers to 4 such questions. a. Use the multiplication rule to
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