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Now a Day, using distributed generators (DGs) as power generator resources in Distribution Networks, is growing increasingly. DG installation will cause many advantages such as power loss reduction, increasing reliability, improving voltage profile, power quality and etc. Therefore, proposing an optimal pattern for installing DGs, attracts lots of attention these days. This paper proposes an optimal...
The concept of service supply chain helps us to consider service from different perspective. The service supply chain which is comprised by the service provider, service integrator and customer enterprise can create more value through collaborations. This paper studies the bulk cement transport business, analyzes the cooperation between the logistics service integrator and the logistics service provider...
Demand response is a key solution in smart grid to address the ever-increasing peak energy consumption. With multiple utility companies, users will decide from which utility company to buy electricity and how much to buy. Consequently, how to devise distributed real-time demand response in the multiseller̈Cmultibuyer environment emerges as a critical problem in future smart grid. In this paper, we...
The applications of PPP in the stadium constructions and operations were reviewed in this paper; concludes the advantages of PPP; and emphasizes the importance of the successful use of PPP for the stadium project. The paper also includes a series of recommendations for choosing the appropriate PPP mode based on the construction/operation phases of project. A case study regarding the application of...
In this paper, an intelligent SCORM-based e-learning system, SELS (abbreviation of SCORM-based E-Learning System) was designed and implemented for a multinational enterprise (MNE). The main purpose of the SELS was to integrate all affairs for training employees and managing curriculums. The proposed SELS contains five sub-systems including curriculum registering, online learning, enterprise document...
This study was carried out to find the context and factors that can affect the productivity of a team of developers and testers in a distributed software project. We interviewed project members in order to understand the relationships between those project context factors and their impact on scheduling risk. Our results suggest that, from a testers site point of view, knowledge expertise and communication...
From among numerous opportunities, organizations must select the projects they decide to pursue. The consequences of poor decisions can be extremely expensive. This is why many methods and models for project portfolio selection have been developed. In this paper, we propose a project portfolio selection approach that combines a business strategy method with a scoring model. The proposed hybrid approach...
Horizontal collaboration is the pooling of logistics activities and consolidation of supply chains between two or more manufacturers for achieving mutual benefit. The concept of establishing horizontal relationships between supply chain partners has been first introduced by the European Union in 2001. Often, horizontal co-operation can lead to substantial economic benefits where it is a means of sharing...
Given the large investments in Enterprise Social Media technologies in organizational settings, this paper sets out to explore the challenges and opportunities that ESM technologies provide for organizational communication. Merging existing conceptual work on ESM with findings from thirteen appreciative interviews with professionals from a large multinational organization, our papers offers six areas...
E-Business solutions may implement a lot of functions, and in this paper we target the following: offer, order, invoicing, and payment. Most SMEs (Small and Medium Entreprizes) demand solutions with such electronic automated processes and administration, integrated in a rather simple to use software as a service cloud environment. We present a new idea how to organise an e-Business solution with ticket...
A website is essential to publish and access information on the Internet. Website contains different web application programs, which has confidential data that needs to be secured. In business scenarios, company outsources some of their confidential data to other agents, these agents are called as trusted third parties. The owner of the data sends the confidential data to the trusted third party agents...
Project management can be defined as a complex set of activities that are performed by project managers, individuals or larger entities, that requires proper application of skills, knowledge, tools and techniques in order to reach or exceed project requirements. Two of the most important skills or techniques that greatly influence the end result of a project are task delegation and resource allocation...
This paper presents the results obtained from the survey research of existing accounting information systems of telecommunication operators in Croatia regarding regulatory challenges of today's telecommunications market. The questionnaire was sent to all registered operators, providing fixed and/or mobile telephone services, but only six of them responded and filled the questionnaire. This survey...
The multi-agent is now an established research topic of epistemology, in the view of ontology, multiagent is usually related to role and agent is the executor of role, in this paper, we take research on multi-agent by solving the problem of RBAC role-permission assignment with conflicting constraints: the formalization, the description of conflict, and the algorithm are given based on the E-CARGO...
The European Union is in the leading position in the world carbon emission trading system, many scholars research deeply on the EU carbon market influence to participants through various research methods, such as mathematical model, empirical analysis. To study the changes of economy benefits involved in enterprises from some of the key practices of the market, so the effect of the market is concluded...
A supply chain with a retailer and a supplier is considered in this paper, where the supplier is a small to medium-sized company with capital constraints and in need of short-term financing and the retailer is a core enterprise, which may or may not have capital constraints but always wants to reduce the working capital need. To meet their capital needs, a 3-party loan contract based purchase-order...
The objective of this paper is to propose an alternative method for improving the supply chain performance in terms of supply chain cost (SSC) reduction. DEA-based performance measurement was implemented. SSC was estimated by employing the activity-based costing (ABC) method. The proposed method was verified by a case-based application of an ore dressing company in Thailand. In addition, value stream...
Due to the increasing of global competitive pressure, shortened product life cycles and ease of imitation, organizations must continue to innovate to ensure the organization sustainability. One of the major factors contributing to organization sustainability is innovation. Previous studies have shown significant impact of organizational innovation capabilities on product and service quality. Literature...
Software development process tailoring is an emerging practice in today's IT industry. A limited number of research works have been published in this area. The existing process tailoring approaches describe similar set of operations and do not provide proper guidelines on performing process tailoring. These tailoring approaches mainly focus on large companies and tailor only one or two agile methods...
In this paper we present a decision support scheme to help managing and optimizing two critical activities in intermodal terminals, namely the containers allocation in the terminal yard and the freight trains composition. In particular, the focus of this paper is on the first problem and the goal is that of maximizing the utilization of the available space while keeping into account several constraints...
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