RETRACTED: Information distortion in a supply chain and its mitigation using soft computing approach

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief as the authors have plagiarized part of their paper previously submitted to, and subsequently published in, Int. J. Integr. Supply Manag., 3 (2007) 261–282, doi:10.1504/IJISM.2007.012630. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work has not been published previously, and that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.