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Project co-funded by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Programme Dissemination Level PU Public X PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission services) RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission services) CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission services) The information in this do...

Project co-funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme Dissemination Level PU Public X PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission services) RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission services) CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission services) The information in this do...

Project co-funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme Dissemination Level PU Public X PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission services) RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission services) CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission services) The information in this do...

Reducing warranty servicing costs are of great interest to product manufacturers or, sellers who are contractually bound to provide post-sales support, up to a specified warranty period, usually in the form of some remedial action that restores a failed item to a functioning condition. Here, in the spirit of Jack, Iskandar and Murthy (2009) strategy based on partitioning the effective warranty ...

Classical warranty plans require crisp data obtained from strictly controlled reliability tests. However, in a real situation these requirements might not be fulfilled. In an extreme case, the warranty claims data come from users whose reports are expressed in a vague way. Furthermore, there are special situations where several characteristics are used together as criteria for judging the warra...

Project co-funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme Dissemination Level PU Public X PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission services) RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission services) CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission services) The information in this do...

In this paper, a replacement-repair model is developed to study a warranty servicing policy for a class of multi-state deteriorating and repairable products, based on a computer simulation analysis. In each working state there is a determined probability for transition to each of the subsequent states, given that it has made a transition out of that state. There are two parameters that determin...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) faces much more severe financial constraints compared to large mature companies it is vulnerable market imperfection. To alleviate SMEs’ constraints, Public Credit Guarantee Schemes (CGSs) have been introduced widely used around the world. Having provided a thorough analysis of effectiveness traditional CGSs, we introduce an innovative financing contrac...