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We define Equipment Core support Capability and Non-Core support Capability. There exist some differences and similarities between Core Support Capability and Non-Core Support Capability. Contrary to Core Support Capability, NonCore Support Capability has three special attribute: Double-Value, Loose-Coupling and Driven Characteristic. It is not only powerful supplement of Core Support Capability,...
In competitive power system all services including transmission loss need to be priced properly to improve efficiency. Though a generally acceptable method for transmission loss allocation is yet to be developed, the proportional allocation technique has wide acceptance. But this method is not directly applicable to transaction based power system due to the absence of a proper transaction based power...
A single-instance multi-tenant (SIMT) SaaS application enables a SaaS provider to achieve economies of scale through runtime sharing. However, runtime sharing can make tenant-specific variations difficult to achieve in such an application. In this paper, we propose an approach to realizing SIMT SaaS applications, which is based on Dynamic Software Product Lines (DSPL) and supports runtime sharing...
Closed-loop supply chain buy back contract of anti-disruption when demand and production cost disruptions is studied in this paper. The results show that: ① closed-loop supply chain has a certain robustness under the condition of buying-back contract. ② When emergent event makes the market demand and cost to large disturbances, the buy-back contract cannot coordinate the closed-loop supply chain....
This article is based on the theory of customer relations management with the features of the real estate market, which studies the influence made by the relationship quality, relationship behavior on relationship performance of the real estate enterprises. This paper puts forward trust variable to reflect the relationship quality, and the compliance, contract control, positive word-of-mouth and opportunistic...
The agile model of software development has been mainstream for several years, and is now in a phase where its principles and practices are maturing. The purpose of this paper is to describe the results of an industry survey aimed at understanding how maturation is progressing. The survey was taken across 40 software development companies in Northern Ireland at the beginning of 2012. The paper describes...
The aim of this paper is to illustrate the main relationship between the independent variables that heavily contribute to fleet resizing. Commonly a shipping company has a fleet for transporting the goods from one port to another around the world. This fleet consists of a group of carriers that transports a fixed amount of cargo between two ports over a period of time and for a fixed cost. The number...
Many IT change initiatives involving the development of software fail, and the scale of the failures can be large. We believe that the traditional contract model for software development is generally responsible for these failures. Even if an IT project is resourced internally, the organisation applies similar management practices to the IT project as if it were outsourced to a third party supplier...
Mobile platforms are multilayer in the sense that application developers can access the users only through the two layers of the platform, namely operating systems (OS) and the carrier. Therefore, mobile platforms require contracting between OS and carrier as no firm has ability to connect both the layers of the platform. We develop a framework to study multilayer two-sided platforms and then examine...
This paper explores the effect of management actions on social exchanges in outsourcing relationships. Social exchanges between individuals constitute relationship quality between client and vendor, which is an important factor of outsourcing success. Based on the interaction approach, we develop a framework for management actions entailing three dimensions: the exchange targeted, the organization...
Efforts in integrating the basic economic functions under a common or compatible context could be accelerated by enabling semantic processing of the underlying data. We establish the basic flows among public budgeting, contracting and spending with business information and provide the necessary ontological elements that would integrate them in economic Linked Open Data corpus.
The energy portfolio and production planning problem for multiple companies under energy constraints is formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear programming problem. A new Lagrangian decomposition and coordination approach is proposed to solve the problem effectively. In this paper, we propose efficient computation algorithms for lower bound and upper bound. The lower bound is computed by relaxing...
In this paper, a model of supply chain partnership based on relational contract was established and the conditions for the self-enforceability of supply chain partnership were given. An analysis was particularly made to reveal the impacts of asset specificity on the self-enforceability, finding that supply chain partnership is most suitable for the situation with moderate degree of asset specificity...
Given the importance of agribusiness for the Brazilian Economy and the requirements of formalization and the degree of professionalization achieved in this sector, this paper considers the use of future contracts to strengthen the marketing of Brazilian fruits. Some of the fruits considered have never been negotiated by using future contracts. However the objective of this paper is to point out which...
The situation that Chinese oil companies fully participate in overseas oil and gas competence is taking shape, accompanying with increasing risks. An annual budgeting execution and control system for overseas projects is designed, which includes AFE, Cash Call, LOA, budget adjustment, budget analysis, purchase control, project management, ERP system control and audit, based on summarizing and analyzing...
This paper analyzes the current energy matrix (year 2012) and the projected to 2015 of the power generation sector in Uruguay. The analysis is performed from the point of view of cost and risk exposure of the country and the utility UTE. The most relevant components of the cost and volatility and ways to mitigate cost risk taken are shown.
As government aerospace defense contracts move to firm fixed price (FFP) and away from cost-based contracts companies are faced with re-structuring the whole product life cycle (PLC) process. Ensuring solid development and manufacturing strategies to meet the new emphasis toward Fixed Firm Price (FFP) procurements is crucial for the financial success of fulfilling the contract. An important aspect...
This paper develops some models to explore the choice of supply chain between public e-markets and private e-markets. We derive the expected profits of the retailer and the supplier and obtain the corresponding optimal strategies in private e-markets, i.e., the supply chain member owns the e-markets. We also analyze the profits of the supply chain in public e-markets, i.e., the e-markets is run by...
Futures traders usually face to the uncertainties of prices and trading quantities of the underlying commodities. The hedging decision is also affected by the agency condition in the trading process. This note works on the above issues by constructing the models with proper considerations. Empirical research is implemented by using the data of fuel oil futures from Shanghai futures exchange. It turns...
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