Networked Infrastructure systems deliver services and/or products from point to point along the network. Demand for the services provided by such systems is typically cyclic, creating inefficiencies in capacity utilization. Congestion pricing provides incentives to shift demand from peak time periods to lower demand periods. This effectively increases the capacity of the system without the need...

The investor interest in multi-regional earthquake bonds may drop because high-risk locations are less appealing to investors than low-risk ones. Furthermore, a single parameter (earthquake magnitude) cannot accurately express the severity due an earthquake. Therefore, aim of this research is propose valuing framework for (SEB) using double trigger type, namely magnitude and depth earthquakes, ...

This paper investigates the efficiency of one-component pricing mechanisms versus twocomponent pricing mechanisms. The paper deals with four pricing mechanisms used in the Internet, namely, flat rate pricing, usage-based pricing, transaction-based pricing and version-based pricing for the analysis. The objective of the paper is to evaluate and analyse the ways in which the usage-based pricing m...

This study considers pricing, production and transportation decisions in a Stackelberg game between three-stage, multi-product, multi-source and single-period supply chains called leader and follower. These chains consist of; manufacturers, distribution centers (DCs) and retailers. Competition type is horizontal and SC vs. SC. The retailers in two chains try to maximize their profit through pri...

Several congestion pricing proposals have been made in the last decade. Usually, however, those proposals studied optimal strategies and did not focus on implementation issues. Our main contribution in this paper is to address implementation issues for congestion-sensitive pricing over a single domain of the differentiated-services (diff-serv) architecture of the Internet. We propose a new cong...