— Passive Optical Networks (PONs) represent a step forward in “first mile” networks; indeed, by using optical technologies, PONs can transfer a large amount of data, and by ...
Andrea Bianco, Davide Cuda, Jorge M. Finochietto, ...
“Radio Frequency Identification” (RFID) and the related EPC standards promise to enable an automatic collection of supply chain data for optimization purposes. While extensive...
- This study explores the diffusion of innovations in health care service organizations. The importance of the diffusion arises from the direct effect of innovations on the quality...
Knowledge sharing (KS) has been a central concern in knowledge management (KM) practice and research. However, KS has remained largely a simplistic concept. In this study, we diff...
This paper presents a simple mathematical analysis of some features of the Harmony Search algorithm (HS). HS is a recently developed derivative-free optimization algorithm, which ...