4 articles in this issue
J.S. Loubser ,S.E. Visagie ,W.J. Pienaar
This article gives an overview of the combined use of object-oriented programming and simulation, with the objective of analysing and planning the logistic functions of a firm. An object-oriented simulation approach is used to evaluate the reception and d... see more
L. Jenkins ,M Anderson
Data collected on the physical, biological or man-made world are often highly correlated, posing the question of whether fewer variables would contain almost as much information. A crude solution is simply to look at the Pearson correlation matrix and omi... see more
S.G. Berjak,J.W. Hearne
Controlled burning is a necessary and regular activity in Mkuze Game Reserve, South Africa. Predicting the rate and extent of fire spread in controlled burning operations is, therefore, an important management objective. In this paper we evaluate a cellul... see more
V.S.S. Yadavalli ,N. Signh,H. Boraine
In the industrial community it is well known that the failure rate of the manufactured units vary with time due to a variety of causes, namely, engineering design, manufacturing process, maintenance and quality inspection procedures and various assignable... see more