Price and service quality are important variables in the design of optimal service systems. Price is important because of the strong consumption externality inherent in service systems. Quality is important since it directly affects consumer welfare, and is readily controlled by altering the priorities of service offered. The paper takes a systematic view of this problem, and presents techniques for quantitative determination of the optimal prices and service quality in a wide class of systems. (Author).
Why do companies exert high effort to reduce the costs of products that are production? Because they can! Because unnecessary product costs were not removed during product development. C-O-S-T, short for Cost Optimization System and Technique, details how a company’s product development teams, their supporting functions, and company leaders can optimize product costs before production starts and thereby maximize lifecycle profits. Since product development teams determine product costs imparted to new products, much of the book details how these teams optimize product costs. The book also includes ways company leaders can create and sustain company-wide engagement in optimizing product costs and keeping the resulting increased profit margins. The reader is entertained while observing a three-day workshop where executives of a fictitious company, Defender Products, Inc. are being taught the C-O-S-T system by its developers. The story flows like a business workshop with slides, dialog, and break-out sessions. The content will benefit all companies that design, develop and manufacture products.
This study presents new microeconomic analyses of congestion-prone services that comprise most private and public services at the final consumption stage. It accounts for two distinctive features of congestion-prone services: the discrepancy between capacity and throughput, and service quality competition. To accommodate these features, a series of new decision-making theorems for consumers and suppliers is developed. The resulting demand and cost functions incorporate service time as the variable that reflects congestion and service quality. In market equilibrium, interactions between consumers and firms endogenously determine the industrial organization type of each firm and thus allow the coexistence of multiple industrial organization types in the same market. Efficiency of resource allocation is assessed by applying two different criteria: service quality diversity throughout the market and Pareto optimality in each submarket.
In the light of the need for decisionmakers in developing countries to adopt a systematic and rational approach to water supply planning, this book provides a comprehensive and balanced treatment of water policy analysis and planning in the context of environmentally sustainable development.
This project focused on the system in Jacksonville, FL (JEA ), which is supplied by ground water with high service pumping. Using the model developed by AwwaRF's EWQMS projects, this project extends prior experience to software implementation, installation, testing, calibration, and daily operations associated with an optimization system, particularly day-to-day optimization. JEA's Operations Optimization System (OOS) was designed to operate, in real-time, in conjunction with JEA's Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. Jointly sponsored by AWWRF & JEA Water & Wastewater Treatment
Providing Quality of Service (QoS) in the Internet is currently the most ch- lenging topic for researchers, industry and network providers. Now, the only available service in the Internet is the best e?ort service, which assumes tra?c is processed as quickly as possible, but there is no guarantee as to timely or actual delivery. On the other hand, there is pressure to o?er new applications in the Internet (like VoIP, videoconferencing, on-line games, e-commerce, etc. ) but this requires some packet transfer guarantees from the network (e. g. , low packet transfer delay, low packet losses). To meet these requirements, new architectures for providing IP- based QoS in the Internet are proposed: Integrated Services (IntServ) and Di?erentiated Services (Di?Serv). However, these architectures need some enhancements to provide adequate solutions for resource mana- ment, signaling, tra?c engineering, tra?c handling mechanisms, etc. In the European research community, a number of projects inside the Fifth Framework Programme were addressed solving the above issues; among these AQUILA (Adaptive Resource Control for QoS Using an IP-Based Layered - chitecture), CADENUS (Creation and Deployment of End-User Services in P- mium IP Networks), and TEQUILA (Tra?c Engineering for Quality of Service in the Internet at Large Scale) are excellent examples. The main achievements from these projects are the prototypes for ?xed QoS IP networks. The extension of these proposed solutions into the wireless environment is the next step.
This book comprises the proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing and Service Systems 2021. The contents of this volume focus on recent technological advances in the field of artificial intelligence in manufacturing & service systems including 3D printing, augmented reality, bioinformatics, intelligence interaction, traffic flow analytics, medical informatics, distance healthcare, robotic systems, etc. This volume will prove a valuable resource for those in academia and industry.
