In this paper, an agent-based structure of the electricity retail market is presented based on which day-ahead (DA) energy procurement for customers is modeled. Here, we focus on operation of only one Retail Energy Provider (REP) agent who purchases energy from DA pool-based wholesale market and offers DA real time tariffs to a group of its customers. As a model of customer response to the offe...

While the relationship between stock market return and oil price is of great interest to researchers, previous studies do not investigate stock market return with petrochemical products market. In this paper, we analyzed the relationship between prices of main petrochemical products and stock returns of petrochemical companies in Tehran stock exchange. Using a panel data model and GLS estimatio...

Analytics is becoming more and more part of the decision making process for management and operational work. Within this session the Deloitte Analytics Institute wants to provide you with an insight into an user experience based approach, how to engage customers with analytics applications and how analytics becomes the key driver for IT landscape transformation. Copyright c © 2014 by the paper’...

The problem-oriented approach to policing and the sltuattonal approach to crime prevention have much in common, both arising from the search for more effective means of crime control. They share a common perspective in being targeted at specific crime problems and locations. This paper describes three case studies of problem-oriented policing carried out by officers of the St Louis (MO) Metropo...

e-Market is on the agenda both in research and in practice and there is a rather broad research field. This paper examines current case studies in order to seek the e-Market benefit and some directions for future research. All data collection in this paper comes from the websites of Alibaba.com and Taobao.com, 2004-2006. The case studies provide an insight on the benefit businesses can gain fro...

The following is one of a series of papers developed or produced by the Economic Analysis Division of the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center as part of its research project looking into issues surrounding user response and market development for selected Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems (IVHS) products or services. The project, sponsored by the Federal Highway Administratio...

In the Data Streaming world, screening for outliers is an often overlooked aspect of the data preparation phase, which is needed to rationalize inferences drawn from the analysis of data. In this paper, we examine the effects of three outlier screens: A Trimming Window, The Box-Plot Screen and the Mahalanobis Screen on the market performance profile of firms traded on the NASDAQ and NYSE. From ...

The majority of studies on market orientation claim compelling evidence exists that market orientation has a positive effect on business performance. This study takes a closer look at 51 studies which have addressed the relationship between market orientation and business performance between 1990 and 2002. The results show that there is no unequivocal evidence as to if and when market orientati...

[1] Statistical analyses (discriminant, logit, and principal components) of water transfers in the Lower Orange River showed that water rights were transferred to farmers with the highest return per unit of water applied, those producing table grapes, and with highpotential arable ‘‘outer land’’ without water rights. Only unused water (sleeper right) was transferred, while water saved (through ...

Stock market forecasting has attracted so many researchers and investors that ‎many studies have been done in this field. These studies have led to the ‎development of many predictive methods, the most widely used of which are ‎machine learning-based methods. In machine learning-based methods, loss ‎function has a key role in determining the model weights. In this study a new loss ‎function is ...