Exploratory Analytics Service Presales Engaging Model——Smarter Collaborative Production Outsourcing Strategies

Engaging Strategies in Adam Bede

One of the narrative strategies employed in different ways by men and women writers is the presentation of narrator. The significance of narrator is so much that it differentiates between the realistic and non-realistic fiction and specifically men's and women's writings in realistic fiction. Robyn R Warhol's theory based on Genette's is applied to Adam Bede by George Eliot to focus on woman as...

Collaborative Visual Analytics 1 COLLABORATIVE VISUAL ANALYTICS

Service Outsourcing

This article reviews the Operations Management (OM) research on service outsourcing, a common practice among today’s businesses. We focus on recent literature in three areas: capacity planning and supplier coordination, service outsourcing under information asymmetry, and quality concerns. Additionally, a mathematical framework is presented that can be used to analyze service outsourcing supply...

Exploratory Analytics for RDF Data

The “Web of Data” vision behind the initial World Wide Web project has found its most recent incarnation through the Semantic Web. More and more data sources are being exported or produced as triples, using the Resource Description Format (or RDF, in short) model standardized by the W3C [3]. To exploit this wealth of data, the SPARQL query language has been defined [4], and recently enriched to...

Outsourcing via Service Competition

We consider a single buyer who wishes to outsource a fixed demand for a manufactured good or service at a fixed price to a set of potential suppliers. We examine the value of competition as a mechanism for the buyer to elicit service quality from the suppliers. We compare two approaches the buyer could use to orchestrate this competition: (1) a Supplier-Allocation (SA) approach, which allocates...