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In restructured electricity markets, the electricity retailers try to obtain the consumers' electricity demand at the minimum cost of different resources such as self-generating facilities, bilateral contracts and pool market purchases. Hence, more attention should be paid to the demand response programs (DRPs) which aim to electricity procurement cost reduction. Owing to the uncertain nature of pool...
We consider the energy sourcing decision problem faced by industrial power consumers who must determine their long-term electricity procurement plan and need to evaluate various options to meet load requirements for their facilities including those which may involve on-site renewable generation. Other than sourcing from on-site renewable generation such as solar photovoltaic or wind, power can be...
This paper investigated the choice of suppliers for emergency supplies. An evaluation index system which is suitable for the choice of suppliers for emergency supplies was constructed according to the characteristics of emergency supplies. Since traditional Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method does not consider limited resource constraints, this paper proposed that the combination of AHP and linear...
Material procurement is the very first link in the course of construction project, which relates to project cost, quality, and time limit and so on. Therefore, the selection of supplier is particularly important. In this paper, a two-stage model of supplier selection in project has been constructed by rough set and multi-objective liner programming based approach. The application of rough set based...
Online auctions have promoted e-commerce development. Generally, B2C or C2C e-commerce auctions types often adopt normal auction Multi-attribute auction as a widely researched domain and integration of multi-attribute decision-making methods with auction theory has been studied in various research settings. Multi-attribute Online Auction decision-making needs comprehensive consideration and decision-making...
A Free Trade Zone (FTZ) is an economic zone that an international business can utilize to optimize its supply network. It provides the advantages of operation efficiency as well as financial benefits. For these reasons, many international businesses choose to locate their manufacturing factories or distribution centers in an FTZ. However, the deployment of business sites in such an area necessitates...
In this paper, we consider a special discount where: (1) the price breaks depend on the size of the order quantities, (2) independent products?? sales volume affect the prices and discounts of the other products and (3) all products must be sold as a bundle. In this circumstance, which the buyer wants to buy multi-product and suppliers also offer the special discount, the problem becomes more complicated...
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