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Which of the following are valid statements about Naïve Bayes and support vector machines? Select all that apply.

International Cosmopolitan is a company that sells an enormous amount of fine jewelry worldwide from its headquarters in Paris, France. Presently 10% of their revenues come from sales in the United States. International Cosmopolitan would like to grow the business by 50% over the next three years. Presently, most of their product is kept in an owned warehouse in France.   While the shipments to United States will always be relatively small in size due to the cost and nature of the product, International Cosmopolitan would still like to take advantage of any possible distribution efficiencies by sending their shipments to a distribution center in United States that can then package their small shipments with other jewelry shipments headed towards common retailers and/or wholesalers. In order to do so they’ll need to make accommodations for shipment, find retail and wholesale companies willing to distribute their product, identify intermediaries to both help export the product out of France and help import the product into the United States.   Based on the above information and your knowledge of international transportation, answer the questions below in the hopes of providing International Cosmopolitan with some preliminary information that will aid them in creating a successful logistical model:     ·       Identify the modes of transportation should be utilized in moving the product from International Cosmopolitan’s warehouse in France to a distribution center in United States?  State what & why.   ·       Which intermediaries should International Cosmopolitan consider in finding customers in United States and exporting the product out of a France?  State who & why.   ·       Which intermediary should International Cosmopolitan consider in helping them import the product into United States? State who & why. ·       What are some of the trade/duty considerations International Cosmopolitan should review/ execute?  State what & why with details.   ·       Briefly discuss what their warehousing plan  and actions should be. State what & why.

What is the estimated time in seconds to run a sorting algorithm with a complexity of 4*n*n on a computer that has a speed of 4*109 instructions/second? Assume that n=105.

If f(n) = O(g(n)) and g(n) = O(f(n)), which of the following is true?

Write code to implement one of the sorting algorithms you know.

Given this recurrence relation T(n) = n*n + 2*T(n/3), and using the recursion tree method, answer the following: A- What is the number of nodes of the recursion tree at level i = 6?   B- What is the height of the recursion tree after it is fully extracted?

What component of a time series has variations in demand which show peaks and valleys that repeat over a consistent interval such as hours, days, weeks, months, or years?    a.    Trend Variations b.    Cyclical Variations c.    Random Variations d.    Seasonal Variations e.    Data Lag      

Which statement below is FALSE:    a: Truckload (motor) transportation has the most flexibility of any mode of transport in the United States b: On a global basis, air and ocean are the most commonly used modes of transportation c:  A NVOCC serves as a type of intermediary or middleman between ocean carriers and customers for ocean cargo shipping d:  Return/Reverse logistics functions have little to no impact upon a firm’s supply chain and their customers e:  Some types of inventory are raw materials, Work-In-Process (WIP), finished goods, and MRO                 (Maintenance/Repair Operations)  

Thoroughly answer the questions regarding Enterprise Resource Planning system. What is ERP? Why should an organization get an ERP system? Who are the major firms that use ERP systems (name three companies that use ERP systems)?  What are two commonly used ERP systems used in today’s environment? What are the advantages and disadvantages of ERP?  Denote five in each category. Based on class materials, what is the usefulness of Kaizen events in support of an ERP initiative? What are successful implementation pre & post components of a ERP installation or ERP upgrade?

A warehouse/distribution method where items are moved directly to customers without storage in the warehouse for longer periods of time.