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Day-Ahead Unit Commitment is a typical business process of regional transmission organizations (RTO) and some vertically integrated utilities to ensure enough generation capacity is committed day-ahead to meet the load for the next day. In many cases, transmission constraints are required to be taken into consideration under the framework of security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC). Transmission...
As more and more large firms expect to migrate their legacy IT systems to cloud computing environment, private cloud has been widely adopted as a suitable cloud service deployment model. In contrast to the traditional IT system implementation, private cloud service deployment in the large company has greatly changed the production and delivery of the IT system. Based on the service dominant logic...
The purpose of this study is to provide a direction on developing effective web site marketing strategy for China hotels by evaluating, analyzing and comparing the web sites between China hotels and U.S. hotels. In the article, the web site marketing attributes were identified and categorized into four groups “information”, “communication”, “distribution” and “transaction” based on the ICDT model...
Next Generation Network (NGN) is regarded as service driven network. The flexibility and agility of deploying new service is increasingly becoming the focus of communication industry today. It is important to learn the success experiences of existed service provision and service development technologies from telecommunication industry and introduce the new service integration technologies of SOA from...
Service performance variability and failures also arise from the inseparability of service production and consumption, which prevents quality inspections of most services prior to delivery. Service marketers therefore have a large stake in understanding both the consequences of failure and how to provide an effective recovery, so that they can minimize customer dissatisfaction following a failure...
This study applies fractal theory into the system integration of service enterprise, and proposes the concept named SOA-based service integration. Through analyzing the fractal characteristics of service integration, this article proves the applicability of fractal theory to the service integration based on three main reasons. Through the establishment of the layered model of service integration structure,...
An improved cost proxy model is established in the following, where the extreme imbalance between urban and rural area as well as complicated geographic environment of China was taken into consideration. On the one hand, new parameters were introduced into scene variant vector so as to prescribe urban and rural differences and also topographical differences. On the other hand, in order to analyze...
Software size measurement at the very early stages of the software development lifecycle has been one of the critical issues in the information system field. In order to plan and develop information systems successfully, it is necessary to obtain an initial estimate of the size of the system being undertaken. Based on Albrecht's function point analysis (FPA) method and using analogous approach, this...
To conceptualize the indirect causal impact of IT capability on organizational performance, this paper first posits that managerial IT capabilities and technical IT capabilities are the dimensions of IT capability construct. Then, using structural equation modeling with data collected from IT and business executives in 250 firms, we empirically validate the conceptual relationship model between IT...
As more and more enterprises realize the importance of becoming customer-centric in todaypsilas competitive economy, they embrace CRM as a core business strategy. Customer relationship management (CRM), an integration of information technology and relationship marketing, provides the infrastructure that facilitates long-term relationship building with customers at an enterprise-wide level. However,...
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