Customer order acceptance is an important process in make-to-order industries. Acceptance policies should operate such that a pre-specified delivery reliability is achieved, while maximizing resource utilization. By selecting orders with specific characteristics that maximize resource utilization, an important and often unforeseen effect occurs: the mix of orders changes such that the expected ...

This paper develops and analyzes several customer order acceptance policies to achieve high bottleneck utilization for the customized stochastic lot scheduling problem (CSLSP) with large setups and strict order due dates. To compare the policies simulation is used as main tool, due to the complicated nature of the problem. Also approximate upper and lower bound for the utilization are provided....

The theoretical complexity of a string recognizer is linear to the length of the string being tested for acceptance. However, for some kind of strings the processing time largely depends on the number of states visited by the recognizer at run-time. Various experiments are conducted in order to compare the time efficiency of both hardcoded and table-driven algorithms when using such strings pat...

Many centralized entry-level labor markets use the firm-proposing deferred-acceptance (DA) algorithm to compute the matching that is implemented among workers and firms. We propose a definition of the strategic options a worker faces in the DA-algorithm. Then we develop a theory to advise workers who distinguish between the firms from which they believe not to receive a proposal, the firms from...

At the core of Wilson et al.'s paper stands the question of intentional change. We propose to extend this notion by introducing concepts from the domains of innovation and knowledge creation. By going beyond their "acceptance and commitment therapy" approach we present a comprehensive framework for a theory of change culminating in the change strategy of "learning from the future as it emerges."

Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis by Sebastian Braun, Nadja Dwenger, Dorothea Kübler* and Alexander Westkamp Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the mecha...

Social groups capable of functioning in an agent-like way are capable of constructing new social things (such as social institutions) by performative acceptance. As groups can function only via their members, we can say that it in the last analysis is the members’ collective acceptance qua members of a group that creates new items into the social world and maintains previously constructed items...

This paper describes an acceptance test procedure for evaluating a spoken language translation system between Catalan and Spanish. The procedure consists of two independent tests. The first test was an utterance-oriented evaluation for determining how the use of speech benefits communication. This test allowed for comparing relative performance of the different system components, explicitly: so...

In this research we examine the influence of technical expertise on future medical technology. Technical expertise is assumed to positively influence the acceptance of modern technologies, and there is evidence within the information and communication technology (ICT) sector for this. While no one would seriously dispute this basic impact of technical expertise on technology acceptance, it is f...

E-learning is a model of delivering learning content electronically with the help o f computers and multimedia. ABC University has implemented the e-learning system for two (2) years in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning process. This study aims to determine the level of user acceptance, especially from the perspective of students. In other words, this study also wants to eva...