Recently, approaches that combine contexts and ontologies taking advantages of their strengths have been developed. Each of them solves different problems from different perspectives. The objective of this paper is to present problems that are not solved up to date as well as to introduce a conceptual proposal. To this aim, we base our analysis on a collaborative B2B scenario that is relevant f...

While agility is a core challenge in todays competitive business, softwarebased business process modeling and execution approaches often refer to strict and inflexible formalization. Complementary, we propose an extension of the business process model by integrating information from the Internet of Things to increase flexibility. Along with orchestration tools and knowledge worker support, new ...

We study the effects of various incentive schemes on the learning behavior of teams in an artificial factory. Modeling the new product development process, we demonstrate, how production and marketing agents learn to coordinate their actions in order to produce the optimal product with respect to their incentive schemes. As a coordinating mechanism between marketing and production, we use the H...

With the increasing use of different types of auctions in market designing, modeling of participants’ behaviors to evaluate the market structure is one of the main discussions in the studies related to the deregulated power industries. In this article, we apply an approach of the optimal bidding behavior to the Iran wholesale electricity market as a restructured electric power industry and mode...

in highly competitive market of food industry maintaining and increasing market share are results of brand performance. hence detecting the effective factors on the brand performance is crucial in strategic marketing decisions. data gathered by a 36-items questionnaire. the sample was composed of 131 managers and marketing experts in 62 companies in food industry those are located in tehran cit...

the importance of obtaining market information via organization’s competitive intelligence considering the extensive changes which companies are experiencing in different areas like increased pressure of competition, emerging new technologies, privatisation in thier competitive environment is now more than ever and can highly affect organizational performance. hence this study assessed the effe...

the experience of countries that have liberalized their electricity markets has shown that the assumption that markets will naturally produce a competitive result is not always justified. the most important concern refers to the changes of demand and price which result in providers’ mistreatment. market power is typically defined as the ability to profitably alter prices away from competitive l...