Applications of reliability theory and some forms of chance-constrained programming need real-time, nonstationary estimates of regression quantiles to trigger preventive actions, thereby avoiding undesirable system states. We have designed the Quantile Estimation Procedure (QEP) for this...

This study expands on the literature of residential abandonment by considering five types of industrial and commercial properties and three levels of explanatory variables – parcel, neighbourhood, and city. Using data for Cleveland, Ohio, it shows that tax policies have a limited impact...

Service scaling is concerned with service productivity, and hyper-networks with the design of service scaling. This new model uniquely explains Internet-based economic activities, such as e-commerce/e-business and social networking, which are quintessential new genres of service for Knowledge...

Service enterprises are value cocreation networks. From this perspective, we analyze how hyper-network models can lead to new understanding for service science. A hyper-network is an integration of multi-layered (role-based) connections of members in a community, such as the Internet and an...

What drives new service business designs? More precisely, what could be a generic strategy to grow value cocreation among persons? The emerging network science and service science may offer an answer: comprehensively <i>connecting, or hyper-networking</i>, the customers, providers, and resources via...