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This study extends the classical ultimatum bargaining game to consider a case when there are multiple players who are alternatively making their offers in multiple states. The game begins by letting the first player makes an offer, then the subsequent players will decide whether to accept or reject the offer in order. The approach of backward induction was used to solve for subgame perfect equilibria...
Unlike the common brownfield, the redevelopment of brownfield caused by contingency has risen the high level of social concern. And the situation is mostly urgent, sensitive and complex. Taking the brownfield caused by Tianjin port “8·12” explosion hazard as the example, the paper applies graph model of conflict resolution (GMCR) to modeling and analyzing, and focuses on the impact of time sensitivity...
In order to improve the competitiveness of the container terminal, how to reduce the truck waiting time is the key point. In this paper, the optimization of double different size crane (DDSC) system with different truck ready time is studied. Firstly, a mathematical model for the minimum of truck waiting time is established. Then, genetic algorithm is designed to formulate an optimum DDSC scheduling...
Product-service design (PSD) is one of the prevailing approaches for combining product and service offerings in a consumer market. Both design companies and industries are searching for ways to offer better products and services to meet the ever-changing demand in customer's preference. Taking the amount of design information generated during the design process, management of design information and...
In the knowledge age, as knowledge becomes the main determinant of organizational success, organizational safety becomes increasingly dependent on knowledge management systems. As a management process, Knowledge Management includes capturing, developing, sharing and effectively using organizational knowledge. For organizational effectiveness; approaches of knowledge management, systems of organizational...
Making decisions in complex systems it is a complicated task to accomplish. As complexity and uncertainty increase, the use of scenarios to exploring that uncertainty becomes essential to support decision makers. The difficulty associated with the combinatorial need imposed by complex systems requires methods and tools to unburden analysts from the cumbersome task of manually deriving scenarios and...
Safety behavior of construction workers is crucial to safety outcomes, and such behavior can be affected by different ways of risk perception. This research first identifies four main ways of risk perception: risk consequence, risk probability, risk utility, and direct risk perception, and then examines whether they are distinct. Further, the effects of these distinct risk perception ways on workers'...
This paper considers a two-stage hybrid flowshop problem where there are a single batch processing machine and a single machine. Each job with release time is assigned into some batches. The waiting time between the batch processing machine and the single machine is limited to make the problem more practical. A MIP model is developed to describe the proposed problem. Since the problem is NP-hard,...
Due to the durability and sustainability, concrete pipes have been widely used in many water management systems. As they are buried underground, several factors such as soil and pipe properties, installation strategies, functional and external loads may involve in determining their failure and service life. In this study, we investigated the effects of such factors on the stress distribution of a...
Women engineers form a small but integral part of the South African and global engineering fraternity. The resultant gender disparity in all technical professions presents a significant challenge to women in the sector, as well as to governments, corporates and higher education institutions. If the future of engineering aims to be more gender equitable, the attraction, education and retention of technical...
Tomatoes are amongst the most consumed vegetables in India. Due to various issues in cultivation and sale of tomatoes, it is not preferred by most farmers in Tamilnadu, India. This paper showers light on various problems faced by the farmers involved in the tomato supply chain process. Around 20 different issues were identified from literature, brainstorming with experts and direct interactions with...
A review of the existing literature has revealed enormous benefits of supply chain collaboration. However, some studies also report failures in the implementation phase. There is a lack of clear theoretical framework which guides organizations in implementing or improving the collaboration maturity level for the supply chain. This research aims at developing a maturity model for supply chain collaboration...
In this paper, we argue that cost leader supply chain (or Defender SC) has more finance and production related integration; whereas differentiator supply chain (or Prospector supply chain) has more marketing and R & D related supply chain integration. If supply chain members have similar strategies and strategic decision making processes, it leads to better supply chain integration. We also relate...
In this paper, we propose a game theoretical analysis of supply chain configurations for two manufacturers and two retailers. The supply chain configuration is the structure of the leader-follower relationship in the decentralized decision making of pricing decisions for manufacturers and retailers. The effects of the supply chain configurations on the total profit are investigated. The closed-form...
The performance of primary health care clinic can be impacted by both of patient behavior and appointment rules. In this paper, we compare and evaluate the level of patient service and clinic performance of different overbooking appointment rules under changing patient behavior. The focus is on the appropriate selection of overbooking rules based on panel characteristics. Analysis methodology involves...
The serial application of a new technology requires a positive monetary valuation of the technologies overall costs including the development project and manufacturing benefits. The endeavor of planning and therefore also assessing an immature technology's serial application is severely hampered by strong advances in the technology's development. In most cases, previous research has not taken future...
In these recent years, a new channel of tuition fee payment using Internet banking has been introduced to Indonesian students. However, based on obtained data field, payment method using Internet banking service has turned out to be not quite popular among the students. The development of this study is adapted from Chan and Lu [4] research model about Internet banking service adoption in Hong Kong...
Mission success probability means the ability of a system to fulfill its mission in a prescribe task profile. In this paper, a hierarchical modeling method is proposed for the mission success evaluation of multi-stage system with repairable spare parts. The binary decision diagram (BDD) was used to represent the system structure function. The component and its corresponding repairable spare parts...
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