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Agent based negotiation is one of the popular mechanisms of automated negotiation in the world of e-business. An automated negotiation mechanism that is going to be accepted by users should be human inspired. Therefore, there is a growing need to design reliable and effective agent based negotiation mechanisms. In this paper, we propose a dynamic negotiation mechanism which in contrary to other researches,...
Network manufacturing technology has proven an effective approach to achieving integration of the distributed manufacturing resources over Internet. The nature of high interoperability of network manufacturing results in a variety of security threats due to the ultimate dependence upon operating system. Virtualization technology, allowing a monitor and control layer running between operating system...
The burning of fossil fuels for electricity generation is now the main source of emissions of GreenHouse Gases (GHG). Moreover, during the extraction of oil and gas, an amount of CO2 is carried to the surface, and released into the atmosphere. As the concentration of CO2 in the pre-salt deposits is higher than in wells currently operated, emissions growth will occur not only by the expected growth...
A production network involves inter-firm cooperation within the manufacturing sector and gradually becomes the mainstream production mode nowadays. This paper explores a framework that combines the dimensions of network layers and relationship styles to better understand relationships in production networks. The Huangyan mould cluster is selected as a case and relationships between mould producers...
Responsibility issues and responsibility distribution are creating confusion for customer and service provider companies. The companies need to cover damage caused to other parties, but the companies also want to avoid overlapping insurance. This paper presents the results of interviews concerning the most important insurance for companies providing industrial services for the manufacturing industry,...
Choosing a target firm in M&A is always challenging, since it greatly affects post-acquiring performance. This paper analyzes three overseas M & A cases presented firms positioned in upstream, midstream and downstream sections of global value chain, the result showed each company have different focus while selecting target firms: technology-based enterprises which positioned in upstream of...
In order to provide the rescuing decision-maker with the optimal evacuation plan when hospital fire happens, so as to improve the rescuing capability, the evacuation process is divided into two sections which include rescue and evacuation. Taking factors of fire to in-patient department into account, combine the swarm behavior in fish school algorithm with Agent-based technology, a reformed lattice...
Based on non-cooperative game theory, a Stackelberg model is developed for two plants in regional power markets. The plants are in the game of two-period in options and spot markets. By the backward induction method, equilibrium quantity of power generate of them in the spot market and call options they sell in the options market are solved. Different impacts of the financial options between the Stackelberg...
Companies operating in the industrial sector are increasingly outsourcing some of their operations to provider companies. Outsourcing involves external workforces and workplaces and forms new kinds of work communities with complex relationships between different performers. The new operating environment introduces safety problems, which are particularly difficult to manage for providers that commonly...
The scheduling of outbound baggage at international airports is a challenging tasks in the airport industry. The issue is to control the incoming baggage flow in order to balance the workload over the system. The resource consumption of the different activities, which have to be scheduled, are depending on the arrival process of the baggage. Because of high complexity we suggest a decomposition heuristic...
Since the consumption style change, the Experience Economy era is coming now in Taiwan. Taiwan is a paradise of the fine food and owns diversified dietary cultures. It becomes one of the most important dietary cultures in the world. In recent researches, there are few studies are done from the decision-making viewpoints of the consumers to explore their experiences and feelings towards the Taiwanese...
Nowadays, several companies have to apply an appropriate decision-making-method, in order to survive in a high competitive circumstance. The appropriate method is one of the crucial management methods for sustaining a business organization. Since, recently, customers do not only concern about the quality issue, but also environmental concerning has been considerably increased and continually developed...
Based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) predecessors have studied the impact of Internet word-of-mouth on consumer's first selection. However, what is its impact on consumer's quadratic selection? This research, taking the baking industry as a carrier, analyzes the relationship among the credibility of electronic word-of-mouth, trust, perceived risk, attraction and the intention to use. The result...
This study employed simulated annealing (SA) to optimize minimum-cost design of sewer network. A sewer network design which contains significantly varied elevations was used as a case study. The results show that SA is able to achieve least-cost solutions which also fulfill all the constraints of design criteria. Based on the average performance of 200 trials, SA exhibits robustness and efficiency...
In this paper, a decentralized adaptive fuzzy nonlinear observer is proposed for fault detection of reconfigurable manipulators. Estimation error is obtained from measured and observed velocity is used as the residual vector, the system is fault-free operation when residual vector is smaller than the selected threshold value. A fault is declared if the residual vector is greater than or equal to threshold,...
Modern engineering systems are becoming increasingly complex, sophisticated, demanding and globally distributed. Maintaining and sustaining such systems healthy, reliably, safely wherever and whenever needed efficiently and economically is a challenging task facing the 21st century. It is gratifying to note that significant advances are being made by researchers from academia, public and private R...
In this paper, we study the terminal-pair reliability in grid networks. An area switched tactical communication system such as ATN (Army Tactical Network) involve large number of nodes, and of links. The resulting huge number of possible combinations of node and link failures makes it difficult to perform quantitative analysis for system survivability assessments in terms of multi-hop connectivity,...
This paper looks at the ideas associated with team roles within a continuous improvement (CI) program. It uses a case study approach, with Belbin's team role theory and the Self-Perception Inventory (SPI) questionnaire to assess the naturally adopted roles within two teams at a Slovenian manufacturing organization. Results show that, team members have a wide range of preferred team roles, but few...
The CUSUM procedure has been popularly used for detecting a shift in the incidence rate of a rare health event. Many CUSUM methods are developed based on a Poisson model with a constant mean number of events. In practice, the expected number of events is likely to vary over time as the population size at risk is not constant but often grows over time. To account for the varying population size, this...
We present an application of a genetic algorithm (GA) based method to the design of hide-unloading job, an asymmetric lifting task in shoe industry of Agra, India. In India, which has the second largest shoe industry in the world, it is labor intensive and concentrated in the small and cottage industry sector with Agra being a major production hub. Due to awkward postures and high load handling in...
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