We report the results of duopoly market experiments where firms first commit to capacities and then compete in prices. The theoretical literature pertaining to these duopoly models suggests that the way residual demand is rationed is fundamental to the character of equilibrium outcomes when capacity costs are sufficiently low. The experiments test this prediction by varying capacity cost and de...

Presented cloud computing billing model is designed for maximizing value-adding throughput of a multiuser parallel computing platform across a set of users of the platform. The model enables maximally demand driven computing capacity allocation while guaranteeing each user application its contract-based assured minimum capacity access level whenever actually demanded. The billing model thus fac...

We provide a comprehensive analysis of capacity investment decisions in duopoly models with demand uncertainty. Firms make capacity investment, production, delivery and pricing decisions. Capacity investment decisions are always made ex-ante demand whereas price decisions always ex-post. The interplay between the timing of demand information and the decision of production and delivery endows fi...

Economics depends on the economic scale of planning. Economists study the characteristics of the production function, while community operating management focuses on demand realization, so that loss of sales or inventory prevents cost reductions and maximizes profits. However, companies with a lack of capacity need to achieve economies of scale and demand to realize them simultaneously, especia...

The subject of this article is the simultaneous choice of product price and manufacturing capacity if demand is stochastic and service-level sensitive. In this setting, capacity as well as price have an impact on demand because several aspects of service level depend on capacity. For example, delivery time will be reduced if capacity is increased given a constant demand rate. We illustrate the ...

BACKGROUND Activity-related dyspnea is the main contributor to the altered quality of life in diffuse parenchymal lung diseases (DPLD). Instruments pertaining to dyspnea are classified as pertaining to domains of sensory-perceptual experience, affective distress or symptom/disease impact; whether these domains are equally related to lung function impairments remains to be established. OBJECTI...