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Agent Based Modeling of Electronic Markets To Analyze the Sustainability of Mutual Cooperation

Lote, Ravindra R - 2007

According to game theory, dominant strategy of Prisoner’s Dilemma game is defecting. Since online trading between two … of reputation system in an online trading using Agent Based Simulation. The effect of reputation system on the …

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Empirical support for global integrated assessment modeling: Productivity trends and technological change in developing countries' agriculture and electric power sectors

Sathaye, Jayant A. - 2009

and analyzing statistical data on productivity trends and technological change in the energy-intensive manufacturing … also examine the impact of alternative model specifications on estimates of productivity growth and technological change …. malleable-- in contributing to productivity growth and technological change. The project has already produced a data resource on …

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Hippocratic PostgreSQL

Padma, J; Silva, Yasin; Arshad, Mohamed; Aref, Walid - 2009

Privacy preservation has become an important requirement in information systems that deal with personal data. In many cases this requirement is imposed by laws that recognize the right of data owners to control whom their information is shared with and the purposes for which it can be shared....

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Nonlinear dynamics in the Beer Distribution Game -- A high-throughput computing analysis

Patterson, Nathan J - 2009

Since the early 1960s, the Beer Distribution Game (BDG) has been used to characterize the various instabilities that arise in multi-stage supply chains. Although an appreciable body of research exists for the BDG and its inherent nonlinear instabilities, there are three apparent technical voids...

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Coordination in maintenance outsourcing

Tarakci, Hakan - 2004

In the first part of this thesis, we consider a manufacturer who has a process with an increasing failure rate over time. In order to improve the performance of the process, the following two types of maintenance activities are outsourced to an external contractor: (a) Preventive maintenance...

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New product portfolio management under uncertainty

Zapata, Juan Camilo - 2008

a multi-phase simulation-optimization decision support framework is developed and a specific instance of the framework … discrete event simulation. On the practical side, the need to realistically represent the flexibility in the allocation of … resources without significantly increasing the computational burden of the simulation resulted in the development of alternative …

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A cost reduction framework for product quality improvement in warranty management

Ren, Kun - 2006

In recent decades, warranties have become more important in deciding the overall product quality. In this thesis, we use warranty as the planning tool to improve product quality during the customer phase. We develop an analytical framework that consists of systematic planning methods to reduce...

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On the cost structure, efficiency and productivity of mass transit systems

Karlaftis, Matthew Georgios - 1996

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the cost and production structure of mass transit systems using both panel and time series data. Accepting cost minimization (subject to a set of constraints that reflect demand, regulatory, and urban setting conditions) as the economic...

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Optimal/near-optimal static and dynamic distribution policies for an integrated logistics system

Kumar, Ashok - 1990

This dissertation develops optimal/near-optimal allocation and replenishment policies for a multi-level, periodic-review, fixed-route logistics system which is comprised of a Logistics Center and several non-identical retailers located along a fixed route. The Logistics Center coordinates the...

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Evaluating trade-offs for profitable design of network infrastructure using multi-criteria optimization

Shukla, Aviral - 2010

stations on an urban road transportation network. We have also made use of state of the art agent-based modeling and simulation …

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