Is Service Design in Demand?

On-demand design service innovations

service innovations S. Shimizu H. Ishikawa A. Satoh T. Aihara Offering design services for manufacturers of embedded devices has become a very important business, one in which the three leading customer requirements are time to market, integration of leading-edge technologies, and cost reduction; in short, ondemand design services. In this paper, we discuss on-demand design service innovations ...

Comparing job allocation schemes where service demand is unknown

In this paper a novel job allocation scheme in distributed systems (TAGS) is modelled using the Markovian process algebra PEPA. This scheme requires no prior knowledge of job size and has been shown to be more efficient than round robin and random allocation when the job size distribution is heavy tailed and the load is not high. In this paper the job size distribution is assumed to be of a pha...

DEMAND ESTIMATES FOR AGRICULTURAL, MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE PRODUCTS

Disk System Design for Guaranteeing Quality of Service in Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems

This paper discusses disk system design that supports VCR-like interactive video-on-demand(VOD) with a good quality-of-service (QoS) guarantee. The guarantee of QoS is based on a practice that requires no higher data bandwidth to support a stream switching from the normal playback mode to a fast search mode while providing VCR-like visual feeling. The main issue studied in this paper is how to ...

Impact of Service on Customers’ Demand and Members’ Profit in Supply Chain

This paper investigates the impact of provided service by the retailers and manufacturers on customers’ demand and members’ profit in a supply chain. It focuses on a supply chain structure with one manufacturer and a common retailer. The demand of customers depends on retailer price and service level. A game-theoretic framework is applied to obtain the equilibrium solutions for each entity in s...