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Along with the globalization of business, the opportunities and challenges in franchise business are increased. In order to ensure that the franchise industry grows stably, it has been always an important topic to forecast the franchise performance accurately. Thus, this study aims at utilizing Grey prediction as an analyze methodology to estimate the performance of US's franchise industry in order...
South Korea (Korea) is a highlight of medical tourism in Asia in the recent years. It has become an attractive destination with the large number of foreign patients around the world. Although, the businesses of medical tourism in this country are quickly expanding, its market size is still unclear due to the shortage of statistical number. Therefore, this study aims to employ forecast tool to estimate...
A machine-vision-based intelligent automatic inspector for workpiece quality is presented. The mechanical structure and electric control system are illustrated in detail. An algorithm based on geometrical dimension measurement is proposed and an algorithm using the center of gravity of the workpiece is applied to locate the inspection area. According to the characteristics of workpiece, a reasonable...
To enhance the performance of global supply chain is one of the important competitive strategies for many businesses. The performance evaluation of suppliers within chain has become an important subject for impacting the efficiency of chain. It is not realistic to evaluate the performance by just one short period of time. To integrate the data across years would be a better way. Moreover, the suppliers...
This paper bring the concept of eco-system into the telecom industry, and set three profit allocation models under three hypotheses, and at last educe the second best choice balanced model for the profit allocation in telecom industry system: In this model each species is in a state of second best choice, but the whole industry eco-system is balanced, so it is a valid model .Only when the species...
Most of the hi-tech industries are facing increasing challenges in global dynamics and uncertainty environment. Therefore, alliances with partners are become critical to enhancing competitiveness. Combined with heuristic technique, GM (grey model) and DEA (data envelopment analysis), this paper develops an effective method to assist hi-tech companies to evaluate the operation efficiency and find the...
According to the view of sustainable development and using ldquosystem-target-indexrdquo structure model, this paper puts up with evaluation index system of sustainable development of human resources based on the levels of population structure, the quality of the population and the capacity of governmental management, and then makes a comprehensive evaluation with entropy Method. In the end, an evaluation...
As the gradually competition market of online game, many companies are finding new opportunities in strategy alliance for enhance competition and profits and this has become an important topic in this industry. Based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) and heuristic technique, this study proposes a new approach with a verification technique to resolve the issues. The objective of this paper is to provide...
Facing the era of micro-profit, business making profit and gaining the competitiveness are getting more difficult. Therefore, the cooperation among businesses is the trend in nowadays. Based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) and grey forecasting model (GM), this study proposes a new decision making approach to resolve the issues of strategic alliance. The objective of this research is to provide...
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