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A pricing-based non-cooperative game is proposed to stimulate cooperation and perform spectrum allocation in multi-relay cooperative transmission networks. The authors construct a buyers' market competition model to consider that multiple relays are willing to share their spectrum resources with a single user. Both the benefits of the relays and the user are concerned in the game. First, according...
In the new power business, the goal of electric generation companies is to commit their services at profit. The committed services will determine the future cash flows and consequently financial performance. However, purely generation assets' cash flows are path-dependent, since the path dependency relies on operational generating units' constraints. This paper focuses on the GenCos' future cash revenue...
Recently, the value chain coordination has been drawing much attention of both researchers and practitioners. One of the most prevalent approaches would be “revenue-sharing”, where a supplier providing products to a retailer works together with the retailer, and the two parties agree upon a contract so as to increase their respective profits. More specifically, the wholesale price of the supplier...
We consider an investment problem where n possible entries are to be selected by a single investment company.There is a capital resource limition C for the company.For every possibly selected entry i ∈ {1, 2, ··· , n},there is a required operation capital Oi, a market life Li,a required operation finished time Ti and a currently potential profit Pi which could be only obtained by the company Pi {(1...
Professional Managers play a very important role in modern corporation management. The profits of the company mostly depend on the executives' performance. As we all know, these executives work behaviors are absolutely related to what they can get from the boss. This article gives a non-linear model to research the factors of the effective incentive on these managers. Furthermore, on the basis of...
Following shopping-mall and supermarket, TV-shopping has become a newly developed retailing mode, which is characterized by broad coverage, direct information transmittal and convenient buying behavior. This paper studies the logistics delivery support capability for TV-shopping business, and finds out that this new business has significant sensitivity to logistics delivery time. The influence of...
Nowadays, the research on Supply Chain Responsibility (SCR) has raised many concerns. Researchers put supply chain research into the framework of social responsibility, however, little research pays attention to the bounded rationality which is much closer to the society. This research, based on evolutionary game theory, focuses on the evolutionary stable strategy of manufacturers and suppliers whether...
Home-appliance replacement may be implemented in two situations: with and without the financial subsidy offered by the government. As the implement entity of the home-appliance replacement, the enterprise may have two choices: with and without the replacement. In this paper, we analyzed the behaviors of the government and the enterprise based on a mixed-strategy game by system dynamics methodology...
The development of embroidery art has been in Taiwan for centuries. From handmade production to digital manufacturing, embroidery products have been commercialized into consumer market as part of modern fashion. As a result, consumer preference proves decisive on purchasing embroidery products but makes demand forecasting in embroidery industry more difficult compared to general consumer goods industry...
In recent years, China's logistics enterprises are developing rapidly, however, at present most of the services provided by logistics enterprises cannot meet the personalized, diversified needs of customer', and the profits are very low. This paper analyses the present situation and existing problems of logistics enterprises in China from the perspective of supply and demand and put forward the idea...
There has been a furious price competition among port logistics enterprises in order to secure the cargo zealously. Therefore, how to prevent destructive price competition from draining all of the profits as well as which strategy should be applied have become the primary center of attention in the port industry. Bertrand model is just a effective means of solving in the price war. It was employed...
Conflicts between the third-party payment enterprise and bank are increasing gradually, the main conflict is interest, revenue distribution issue seems to be more important. Because of the importance of the market, introducing theoretical framework of service supply chain and enact reasonable revenue distribution plan on that basis, it establishes revenue distribution model through introducing idea...
A custom-designed item commonly involves a prepurchase entry fee as well as a purchase price. This paper consider a two-stage pricing strategies format, the firm decides to make a binding commitment to a second-stage price in which quality is privately assessed and evaluated by each consumer who entered in the first stage. With commitment, the two price points are strategic substitutes and the firm...
The hi-tech projects' investment is characterized with high risk and huge profit, so a scientific and accurate risk evaluation model is of importance to projects' investment. Based on the analysis of the indicators influencing the investment risk of hi-tech projects, some typical indicators were selected. Firstly, according to the quantitative assessment results from the experts, some samples were...
This paper selects power enterprises in 2004-2008 Shanghai and Shenzhen as the sample and empirical analysis of the influence factors of management compensation on the sample companies. This article supposes 6 independent variables and study the relationships with management compensation. The empirical results show that enterprise scale, location of the enterprise, compensation committee, ownership...
Using SFA(Stochastic Frontier Analysis) method, the paper conducts an empirical study on the innovation efficiency of China's manufacturing industry and its relevant factos. The findings of the research are as follows: the innovation output of the China's manufacturing sectos is mainly driven by sceitific funds; the innovation advantages of the manufacturing industry concentrates mainly in labor-intensive...
A competitive co-evolutionary cultural differential evolution (CCCDE) is proposed for constrained optimization problems. A center individual, which is a potential solution, is introduced in the belief space. Competitive strategy is used to realize the co-evolution of multi-population. A relative fitness, i.e. competitive fitness, is presented to establish a diversity mechanism, which helps to escape...
In recent years, the air travel has become the most popular mean of transportation all around the world. As the safest mean of transportation, people go for air travel more each day to have the most suitable trip to their destination with less hassle of long hours of trips through other means. With such a rapid growth demand in recent years, there have been major impact on the supply and demand diagram...
This research mainly discussed some concrete details about how to make better use of the option contract in the case of biomass supply chain under “Company + Farmer” mode. Based on Stackelberg Game Theory this paper built a contract model, in which the company coordinated the farmer's production and the contract quantity. Moreover, the optimal option exercise price was determined, considering various...
In this paper, with DEAP Version 2.1,we analyzed the total efficiency and the scale of input-output on the basis of the statistic materials of all sorts of 18 diversified railways. The result shows that the scale efficiency of diversified railway is less than 1. Investment in fixed assets is on the high side, and profit is short. The best way to improve efficiency for 11 DEA inefficiency railway bureaus...
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