This paper addresses new questions around media performance as a result of the rise of centralized content portals such as iTunes or MySpace. We first describe the rise of centralized content portals in different media industries, and discuss how these portals are creating a dominant position for themselves by using lock-in strategies. Then we describe the concept of media market performance, a...

When planning to change operations at ports there are two key stake holders with very different interests involved in the decision making processes. Port operators are attentive to their standards, a smooth service flow and economic viability while border agencies are concerned about national security. The time taken for security checks often interferes with the compliance to service standards ...

Improving the quality of learning and teaching has always been in the interest of instructors in all fields of study. There have been tremendous efforts to this end. In this article, learning and teaching modules enhanced with computer technology are introduced. This approach is based on concept questioning and scenario building aided with interactive animation, simulation, and rich graphical c...

First passage model specifies a credit default, when the underlying drops below a certain barrier. An investment failure often occurs unexpectedly and involves significant losses to the project value, which makes a great similarity to a default event preventing the investor paying back its debt. In this paper we aim to link the two theories, where an investment failure is determined through the...

Today, the increasingly faster technological advances make the competition ever-fiercer in the business environment. This situation has laid emphasis on the importance of technology foresight for corporations to plan and even shape their futures for a long term. However, the conventional methods do not overcome the problems with the overload and heterogeneity of information in the current infor...

For this study, we constructed the following three case scenarios based on the Taiwanese government's energy policy: a normal scenario, the 2008 “Sustainable Energy Policy Convention” scenario, and the 2011 “New Energy Policy” scenario. We then employed a long-term Generation Expansion Planning (GEP) optimization model to compare the three case scenarios' energy mix for power generation for the...

Alternative energy sources, such as biomass CHP plants, have recently gained significantly in importance and action is due both on the large scale corporate level and on the small scale. Hence, making the scope and economic outline of such projects easily intelligible without losing relevant details seems a key factor to further promote the necessary developments. The model setup presented in t...

This paper establishes an approach to develop models for forecasting demand and evaluating policy scenarios related to planned capacity expansion for meeting optimistic and pessimistic future demand projections. A system dynamics framework is used to model and to generate scenarios because of their capability of representing physical and information flows, which will enable us to understand the...

Complex risk is a critical factor for both intelligent systems and management. In this paper, we consider special class of statistics, named complex statistics. Our result provides new approach addressing risk, especially in deep neural networks. By further developing the properties related to are able derive dual representations such risk.

Macaúba is a tropical palm native in South and Central America, its fruits present high-quality oil for biodiesel production. Notwithstanding, macaúba’s wastes by-products are not usually repurposed as energy sources. This study shows bibliometric analysis to assess current applications investigate other recovery routes by-products. All the investigations focused on information about main resea...