Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting … and cost structure, the demand, the contestability of software-markets, and the allocative efficiency. In this context it … appears to be reasonable to subsume the various characteristics under the following generic terms: software as a means of data …

Maintenance activities can have a large impact on the performance of a production process and promised delivery dates …. Therefore, maintenance and production planning should be handled as an integrated problem. In this paper, the problem of … maintenance activities are planned beforehand. If a failure cannot be averted, a corrective maintenance has to be performed …

We analyze the impact of obsolescence of economic inventions by incorporating maintenance costsin the endogenous growth … model of expanding product varieties. This contrasts with the existingliterature, which ignores maintenance costs and uses … the model of quality improvements todescribe obsolescence. If the maintenance costs become too high, the operating profits …

This paper presents a generic modeling framework to simultaneously decide about production quantities and maintenance … wear and tear. For this reason frequent maintenance activities need to be coordinated with the production operations in … maintenance and di erent modes of interaction between maintenance and setups. As the model is numerically intractable for standard …

effects of tenancy rent control on housing quality and maintenance. Since the discounted revenue received over a fixed …

We develop a stochastic general equilibrium model in which maintenance endogenously affects the capital depreciation … rate. The model performs well in generating maintenance series that match closely existing survey-based measures for Canada …. Maintenance is procyclical and comoves almost always with output. Investmentspecific shocks are the only disturbances that induce …

Purpose: Human factors play an inevitable role in maintenance activities, and the occurrence of Human Errors (HEs … individual factors influence the performance of maintenance operators affecting Human Error Probability (HEP) with a consequent … variability in the success of intervention. However, a deep analysis of such factors in the maintenance field, often called …

delivery and public health. By experimentally identifying the impact of incentives for local maintenance for both providers and … facilities to either a control or two treatments. The first treatment incentivizes maintenance of the facility among providers … incentivizing maintenance does not favor collective action. The treatments raise the quality of facilities and reduce free riding …

The appropriate maintenance strategy is essential for maintaining the thermal power plant highly reliable. The thermal … most, and the failure of reheater affects the availability at least. Based on the criticality ranking, the maintenance … an appropriate maintenance strategy for the boiler-furnace system of the plant. The finding of the study assisted the …