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On the basis of related research, by practical survey of private enterprises this paper has designed an indicator system for harmonious labor relations in eight aspects of compensation, labor intensity and working time, social insurance and benefit, labor safety and health, training and career prospects, inner human relations, contract and democratic management, and work of labor union. Then by AHP...
A virtual enterprise is an ad hoc organization that combines the competencies of its partners and commits its resources flexibly to respond to business opportunities. To facilitate effective collaboration, the problem of the distribution of benefits among the partners within the virtual enterprise, which essentially is the principal-agent problem between the core enterprise and partner enterprises,...
Service Level Agreements (SLA) management has been the subject of intensive research. However, the existing protocols for SLA negotiation and generation have not addressed the issue of the knowledge difference between clients and the providers. In this paper, we present the implementation of our automatic matching approach between the client and the provider in order to bridge the gap between their...
This paper analyzes the hybrid supply chains of internet supply chain and traditional supply chain with one supplier selling directly to consumers by internet supply chain, and a retailer selling to consumers by traditional store as the supplier's agent. The coordination mechanism which is Perfect Coordination Mechanism and two noncoordination mechanisms which are Stackelberg Mechanism and W=C Mechanism...
This paper analyzes the supply chains of traditional retailing and direct internet with one supplier and two Cournot competitive retailers. The noncoordination mechanisms which are Second-best Mechanism and Stackelberg Mechanism and one coordination mechanism which is Quantity Discount Mechanism are studied. We show that whether the supplier selects coordination mechanism will depend on concrete circumstance.
In this paper we concentrate on power producers' strategies on the electricity market with contracts and Asian-type call options for power delivery. We propose stochastic asymmetric supply function equilibrium and Cournot models that are based on the assumption of the stochastic behavior of electricity prices. We demonstrate how in this stochastic case the considered derivatives influence on the power...
3G Era, it is the great strategic significance for operators and service providers to establish a solid cooperation to improve the competitiveness of the mobile service chain. To explore the contract mechanism between the operators and service providers, this paper studied the operation model of the major operators and providers in the Zhejiang Province, analyzed the existing models of cooperation,...
The coordination problem of a supply chain with one supplier and one retailer is analyzed under the condition that the cost information of the retailer is asymmetric. A revenue-sharing contract model is established, in the model, the supplier have the decision-making power of wholesale price and revenue sharing ratio, and the retailer have the decision-making power of hiding the information of marginal...
This paper explains the phenomenon that taxi drivers of all over the country on strike with bounded rationality model, and draws several conclusions. First of all, Parties' limited cognition leads to contracts are incomplete, which will require renegotiation. The main reason of the strike is that taxi drivers own little power on the renegotiation but not the increased rent, unauthorized taxi and so...
In order to reduce environmental pollution and enhance the resource utilization, the management of closed loop supply chain has become very important. A two-echelon neutral closed loop supply chain coordination model was established by revenue sharing contract and quantity discount contract, and the impacts of the two contracts were analyzed in the supply chain channel, which showed that the contracts...
In order to increase their stealth, malware commonly use the self-modification property of programs. By doing so, programs can hide their real code so that it is difficult to define a signature for it. But then, what is the meaning of those programs: the obfuscated form, or the hidden one? Furthermore, from a computability perspective, it becomes hard to speak about the program since, its own code...
None-cooperation between a client enterprise and a third party logistics service provider lead to the lost of the best profit in common contracts. To solve this problem and introducing continuous improvement ideas, this paper apply the closed-loop supply chain coordination management methods to analyses a client enterprise and a third party logistics enterprise's cooperation develop into mature stage...
A key component of a services-based economy are the processes that establish and maintain compliance to Service Level Agreements (SLA). An SLA is a contract between a service provider and a customer that specifies the governing parameters of a service and the penalties for non-compliance. This paper presents a new methodology and conceptual tools to facilitate Six Sigma's Define phase within the DMAIC...
In this paper, a financial engineering method is developed for pricing guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefits which are extremely popular in variable annuities markets. The embedded options of the contract which provide money-back guarantees and market guarantees on invested principal regardless of market performance are separated. By analyzing the periodic cash-flows of the policy and using the Feynman-Kac...
Along with the emergence of Web 2.0 there is a need for accessing information in a continues and secure way using whatever device available for doing so. In such a context, access to information resources must be done in a secure and robust way through services that come up as a new paradigm for programming and organizing operations. This paper presents an approach for retrieving critical and non...
The convergence between Web services and grid computing became possible the integration of distributed services, providing the use of sharing and coordinated resources on the network. In this environment, the purpose of a Metascheduler would improve the performance, availability and scalability of the resources. In this paper, we present a Metascheduler framework aiming QoS provision in Web services...
The method currently applied to ensure the robustness and dependability of Web Services compositions do not effectively map to more open, dynamic environments. This paper proposed a new multi-layer Web services composition model based on multi-agent systems and the choreography model. Every layer of our model provides specific conceptual descriptions and domain capabilities of their domain. We used...
We report on our experiences from two commercial projects conducted under a new form of contract that supports agile development and encourages efficient collaboration between customer and supplier. We show actual extracts from our contracts and describe how to adjust a contract to specific project conditions.
As growing number of real-world activities are performed through Internet connected services, there are increasing needs to make the behaviors of both service consumer and provider accountable. Many efforts attempting to regulate services and to guarantee service qualities lack sufficient accountability support. This paper treats accountability as a service and proposes a novel contract-based accountability...
This paper studies how to coordinate a supply chain consisting of one supplier and one retailer with nonlinear price-demand function under market demand disruptions. Different from conventional research on channel coordination, it mainly focuses on how the demand disruption affects the coordination of the supply chain in which production cost is a convex function of production quantity It shows that...
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