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Showing 1 to 20 of 234 for “"bidding"”.
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Subcontractor bidding strategy
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1975
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Optimal GENCO bidding strategy
… Market Participants the ability to build optimal bidding strategies based on Microeconomics analysis. Supply Function Equilibrium (SFE) is attractive compared to traditional models. This research identifies a proper SFE model, which can be applied to a multiple period situation. The equilibrium …
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Evolving a bridge bidding system
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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Creating games worth bidding for
Until recently a heavily contested process, the International Olympic Committee has run into difficulty attracting qualified cities willing to host the Olympic Games. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, twelves cities have withdrawn bids due to local referendums or pressure from local groups …
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Bidding AD(ie)U to homelessness?
Are small, backyard units an answer to Los Angeles' housing affordability and homeless crises? In the last two years, four pilot programs have emerged to answer this question. With accessory dwelling units (ADUs) as the common feature, these programs test various financial incentives to house …
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The role of the bidding process in the corporate governance of bidding firms: the case of abandoned acquisitions
… an empirical investigation of the experience of bidding firms in abandoned acquisitions. Existing research suggests that, in certain circumstances, abandoned acquisitions may play a governance role, disciplining bidder managers for proposing acquisitions which reduce shareholder wealth. However, …
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Supervised Classification of Imbalanced Bidding Fraud Data
… are vulnerable to several types of fraud. Shill Bidding (SB), a predominant auction fraud, is the toughest to identify due to its resemblance to the normal bidding behavior. An innocent bidder can easily be cheated and lose money if shill bidders are not identified. Our goal is to devise a SB …
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The Promises and Pitfalls of the Competitive Bidding Process
The specter of increased taxes casts a dark shadow upon the American landscape. At the same time public satisfaction with schools, public housing, crime, and infrastructure is on the down turn. The negative perception of public agencies as bureaucratic, inefficient, and wasteful is all the more …
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A queueing theoretic analysis of contractors' sequential bidding problems.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics. Thesis. 1970. Ph.D.
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The impact of bidding aggregation levels on truckload rates
… are impacted by bid type, and if aggregation of bidding lanes can reduce costs for both shippers and carriers. Using regression analysis, we developed a model to isolate and test the cost effects that influence line-haul rate for long-haul shipments. We have determined that aggregation of …
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Price implications and bidding strategies for electronic computerized markets
… markets were also hypothesized to alter bidding strategies of participants. The theoretical background which stimulated this study arose from the shortcomings of the competitive market system in agriculture. One possible solution to agriculture's pricing problems is electronic markets. …
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MULTI-STAGE MULTI-MARKET OPTIMAL BIDDING STRATEGY IN ELECTRICITY MARKETS
… In this situation, designing an effective bidding strategy for MPs who seek to maximize their profits has thus become one of the crucial yet difficult tasks that still need further exploration. The majority of recent studies overlooked this problem for the purely financial players. …
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Impact of risk sharing on competitive bidding in truckload transportation
The purpose of this research was to evaluate whether a shipper's fuel surcharge (FSC) program affected its per-load transportation costs in the United States full-truckload (TL) transportation industry. In this study, we restricted transportation costs to line-haul charges and fuel surcharge …
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Bidding strategies in reverse auctions for the automotive industry procurement
The Information Era has brought along a myriad of revolutionary changes. The Internet in particular has given new forms to old paradigms. It is quite a challenge for companies to decide which of all these options best suit their business model and their strategies, hopefully one that also provides …
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Comparing bank mergers in Europe and the USA: bidding bank performance
… of bank mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for bidding banks in both geographic regions and (ii) seeks to explain reported differences. Research on European bank M&A has received relatively little academic interest in the extant literature. To date, conclusions about the performance implications …
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Bidding, playing, or competing? : rational and irrational determinants in Internet auctioning
… web site to test price sensitivity. A simulation bidding system was built in the laboratory to examine auction formats and the effect of competition. Four primary results are shown. First, game-playing attitude towards auctions generally exists among bidders. Second, bidders hold strong winning …
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A study of competitive bidding with particular reference to the construction industry
… methods to the problems of competitive bidding. The study was provided with data and information by four English building construction companies. First a preliminary feasibility study was conducted which indicated that the potential for substantial benefits exists. Then the decision …
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An optimization based bidding process : a new framework for shipper-carrier relationships
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Strategies of large constuction firms in Japan for the open bidding systems
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995.
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A Methodology for Estimating the Level of Aggressiveness in Competitive Bidding Markets
Competitive bidding, where the project is awarded to the lowest bidder, is a basic part of the construction industry. This method of project delivery is designed to promote healthy competition in an attempt ensure the lowest price for the project. A contractor knows that lowering a bid price …
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