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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Pricing Schemes"”.
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Economic evaluation of small wind generation ownership under different electricity pricing scenarios
… a small wind generator under the Critical Peak Pricing (CPP) and Time of Use (TOU) price-based demand response programs could be a viable option. Economic evaluation of owning a small wind generator under the two pricing schemes, namely Critical Peak Pricing (CPP) and Time of Use (TOU), is the …
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Congestion control in multi-serviced heterogeneous wireless networks using dynamic pricing
Service providers, (or operators) employ pricing schemes to help provide desired QoS to subscribers and to maintain profitability among competitors. An economically efficient pricing scheme, which will seamlessly integrate users’ preferences as well as service providers’ preferences, is therefore …
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Pricing and admission control for shared computer services using the token bucket mechanism
… dissertation presents and analyzes token-bucket pricing schemes for shared resources. This research is motivated by the computer services industry, where services are provided mostly on a dedicated basis. However, leading computer companies such as HP and IBM forecast that external service …
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Incentive design for quality investment by smallholder producers
… during the sourcing process. Meanwhile, several pricing schemes are applied to incentivize the quality-improving effort from producers of different risk attitudes and defaulting likelihoods. In this paper, we consider a producer-agribusiness supply chain with stochastic wholesale market price and …
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A model-based dynamic toll pricing strategy for controlling highway traffic
A model-based approach to dynamic toll pricing has been developed to provide a systematic method for determining optimal freeway pricing schemes. A novel approach is suggested for alleviating traffic congestion, which utilizes identified models of driver behavior and traffic flow, as well as …
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Design and analysis of competitive electricity markets
… on the study of allocation mechanisms and pricing schemes for the design and analysis of competitive electricity markets. Motivated by the increasing demand-side participation in high- and low-voltage power grids, we consider two-sided competition models where a finite group of producers …
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Joint call admission control incorporating pricing for congestion control to enhance QoS and ensure revenue for network operators in next generation wireless networks
… while maintaining QoS by incorporating pricing in JCAC. An analytical model based on a multi-dimensional Markov decision process is used to model JCAC algorithm in an NGWN. The JCAC algorithm used is load-based whereby calls arriving in the network are admitted to the least loaded RATs. …
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Water demand management in Kuwait
… one is certainly the price. Water does have its pricing schedule in Kuwait, but in reality water bills are not collected. The main objective of this thesis is to investigate the impact of water pricing as a tool for managing water demand. The original idea, to construct a water demand model for …
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Energy, power, and office buildings : design and analysis of an off-peak cooling system using structural mass storage
… the commercial sector) scheduled "time-of-day" pricing schemes have become imperative. At present, most conservation strategies for commercial buildings focus on the reduction of energy consumption orchestrated (justifiably) by t he expense of electrical energy for lighting and cooling which …
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Advances in electric power systems : robustness, adaptability, and fairness
… thesis, we focus on how to design an auction and pricing scheme for the day-ahead electricity market that achieves both economic efficiency and fairness. The work is motivated by two outstanding problems in the current practice - the uplift problem and equitable selection problem. The uplift …
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Temporal separation of payments and consumption in online payment systems and their impact on firm strategies
… one design feature of online payment systems – pricing scheme or temporal separation of payments and consumption - may be used strategically to compete in the market for information goods. I incorporate consumer “mental accounting” (MA) from Behavioral Economics literature into a firm level …
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Towards understanding the impacts of congestion pricing on urban trucking
… and travel demand continues to rise, congestion pricing is a potentially compelling policy alternative. This thesis focuses on measuring the impacts of congestion pricing policies on urban freight. We differentiate from prior studies which measure the impacts of urban freight and present tools to …
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Increasing Return on Assets through insourcing logistics
… have a negative effect on revenue under common pricing schemes. While there may be several other factors which help in ultimately making the decision to insource, the paper provides an important contribution in helping decision makers see the effects of insourcing in the oilfield services …
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Linear and Nonlinear Pricing for Network Games With Complete and Incomplete Information
… addresses optimal linear and nonlinear pricing policy design for a monopolistic network service provider with various types of public and private information on user types. In the communication network pricing literature, it is the linear pricing schemes that have been largely adopted, …
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Effectiveness and acceptability of congestion pricing
… many external costs. Marginal social cost pricing has long been advocated as a means of alleviating market failures resulting from such negative (environmental) externalities. Congestion pricing comes in numerous forms (e.g., tolls on roads or express lanes), but has only been sporadically …
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Distance based vehicle insurance : actuarial and planning issues
… could be implemented. Five main distance based pricing schemes have been proposed: a flat per-km rate, temporal or “time of day” pricing, road-type pricing, demographic pricing and “differential” pricing, which prices low mileages at a higher per-km rate. Each of these systems treats risk …
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Price Dynamics and Spatial Market Structure for Three U.S. Southern Pine Timber Products
… assumptions that firms price F.O.B. and F.O.B. pricing in spatial markets is expected to yield results analogous to the usual competitive results in spaceless markets (i.e., firms set price equal marginal cost plus transportation costs). Competitive arbitrage is the error correction mechanism …
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Supply chain optimization : formulations and algorithms
… solution or explore alternative solutions using pricing schemes, including a Lagrangian-based heuristic. We show how approximate dynamic programming can be used to solve this supply chain optimization problem as a dynamic control problem using any of the five algorithms. In addition to improving …
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Essays on Pricing and Promotional Strategies
… contains three essays on theoretical analysis of pricing and promotional strategies. Chapter 1 serves as a brief introduction that provides a motivation and an overview of the topics covered in the subsequent chapters. In Chapter 2, we study optimal couponing strategies in a differentiated duopoly …
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A source-destination based dynamic pricing scheme to optimize resource utilization in heterogeneous wireless networks
… used of these economic mechanisms is dynamic pricing which varies the MWN resources' price according to the congestion level in the MWN. This encourages users to shift their non-critical traffic from the busy hour, when the MWN is congested, to off-peak hours when the network is …
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