We study the distribution network structure of multiple firms in context demand sensitivity to market offers. The problem consists determining profitability horizontal collaboration between a collaborative schema. It considers case set regional centers (DCs) where each DC is initially dedicated solely one firm’s activities and studies when it beneficial that owners collaborate through sharing t...

Could computing service providers have to ensure that the service applications, cloud software, and the physical location of the cloud are secure. Furthermore, providers need to ensure that the service is secure on the client’s side of the system. To examine the client side security level we build economic models that consider the tradeoffs between system usability and client side security rest...

This research proposes a Preemptive Possibilistic Linear Programming (PPLP) approach for solving multiobjective Aggregate Production Planning (APP) problem with interval demand and imprecise unit price and related operating costs. The proposed approach attempts to maximize profit and minimize changes of workforce. It transforms the total profit objective that has imprecise information to three ...

the present study is an attempt towards remodeling cost, revenue and profit relationship within the network process. the previous models of data envelopment analysis (dea) have been too general in their scope and focused on the input and the output within a black box system, therefore they have not been able to measure various phases simultaneously within a network system. by using these models...

In this paper we study the following Cluster Profit Problem. Highly parallelizable requests arrive on network nodes. Each request is associated with a tuple (g, r). The requester is willing to pay kg if k machines execute the request in parallel. If some machines work on a request, the machines must pay the request processing costs, r, as well as connection costs to the request. The problem is ...

The resource-based view on firm diversification, subsequent to Penrose (1959), has focused primarily on the fungibility of resources across domains. We make a clear analytical distinction between scale-free capabilities and those that are subject to opportunity costs and must be allocated to one use or another, thereby shifting the discourse back to Penrose’s (1959) original argument regarding ...

The alignment of sales territories has a considerable impact on profit and represents a major problem in salesforce management. Practitioners usually apply the balancing approach. This approach balances territories as well as possible with respect to one or more attributes such as potential or workload. Unfortunately, this approach does not necessarily guarantee maximizing profit contribution. ...