Online instruction is gaining an increasing presence due to the benefits associated with it, including the ability to consolidate education and training across geographical and time constraints, and the claim by many that online education and training is cost efficient. This paper provides a relatively concise and useful history of online learning, and a discussion of issues to be faced by the ...

In a simple model of network industry, where an upstream monopolist provides an essential input for downstream service supply, we analyze the competitive settings arising in the downstream market under alternative regulatory frameworks; we combine structural (i.e. vertical integration, functional/ownership separation) and conduct (discriminatory and nondiscriminatory access) regulatory remedies...

The induction of demand by increasing the efficiency of a production or consumption process is known as the rebound effect. Feedback loops in System Dynamics can be used to conceptualize the structure of this complex phenomenon and also for communicating model-based insights. In passenger transport, the rebound effect can be induced through increased cost efficiency (direct economic rebound) an...

New information and computing technologies offer cost efficient and effective learning opportunities for health care professionals. The Assisted Electronic Communication project is prototyping, administering and evaluating a digital discourse system for health care professionals within an acute Hospital. Health care staff participating in the study are able to access and contribute to threaded,...

45 eregulation of the energy market is bringing about a fundamental change in the way power equipment assets have to be operated, maintained and replaced. High power-equipment performance is key to cost-efficient energy trading and to the success of the efforts being made by utilities to satisfy end-user demand for high power quality . Three main trends are shaping power equipment life manageme...

Rapid mass movements (RMM) pose a substantial risk to people and infrastructure. Reliable and cost-efficient measures have to be taken to reduce this risk. One of these measures includes establishing and advancing the state of practice in the application of early warning systems (EWSs). EWSs have been developed during the past decades and are rapidly increasing. In this paper, we focus on the t...

The Internet commerce technologies have significantly reduced sellers’ costs of collecting buyer preference information and managing multiple prices, enabling cost efficient custom product design and differentiated pricing. Advanced manufacturing technologies have also improved sellers’ manufacturing flexibility. We show that an early adopter of customization has a firstmover advantage, support...

Although there has been much debate about how it is implemented, case management is most often described as a 8.1.1 process to coordinate the often diverse and complex roles and responsibilities organisations have with a client. Elizabeth Moore defines it as: ’A set of logical steps and a process of interaction within a service network which assure that a client receives needed services in a su...

Electricity Market from economic, regulatory and engineering perspective is a very demanding system to control .There is requirement of provision of cost efficiency, lower impact of environment alongwith maintenance of security of supply for use of competition and regulation in the electricity market. Many countries due to failure of its system for adequately management of electricity companies...

Today's organizations, operating in an increasingly competitive conditions, are characterized by a network of relationships with suppliers and customers. Thus, the key resources, being a source of competitive advantage, are located not only within the organization but are part of network relationships. The most important task of managers is to achieve supply chain cost efficiency while maintain...