A simplified approach to control water distribution under restricted power supply
DOI: 10.1504/IJAMS.2008.020036 | Anjali Awasthi, Satyaveer S. Chauhan, Najoua Dridi, Jean-Marie Proth | This paper presents a water supply problem arising from the regions where power supply is not regulated and the water supplier has to manage the demand with minimum possible cost. The consumption is constrained to organise rationing, and th... | 4 - 20 |
Time-of-use pricing and electricity demand response: evidence from a sample of Italian industrial customers
DOI: 10.1504/IJAMS.2008.020036 | Graziano Abrate | The introduction of real time pricing in many wholesale market as well as the liberalisation process involving the retail market poses the attention over the measurement of demand response to time differentiated price signals. This paper sh... | 21 - 40 |
A hybrid MCDM model for evaluating the corporate image of the airline industry
DOI: 10.1504/IJAMS.2008.020036 | James J.H. Liou, Mei-Ling Chuang | In today|s highly competitive airline industry it is acknowledged that having a preferred corporate image may have an impact on customer loyalty towards the firm. A good corporate image also provides a powerful way of differentiating a comp... | 41 - 54 |
Assessing the value of intangible assets: evidence from Japanese firms
DOI: 10.1504/IJAMS.2008.020036 | Pablo Gonzalo Ramirez, Toyohiko Hachiya | This study contributes to the literature on market signalling and resource-based view by examining the relationship between intangible assets, value, value outperformance and its sustainability within a sample of public Japanese firms. Resu... | 55 - 74 |
Rescheduling of unrelated parallel machines under machine breakdowns
DOI: 10.1504/IJAMS.2008.020036 | Jean-Paul Arnaout, Ghaith Rabadi | In this paper, new repair and rescheduling algorithms are developed for the unrelated parallel machine environment. The introduced rules and algorithms are used to handle different rates of breakdowns and delays and are evaluated based on s... | 75 - 89 |
On the completeness of a constrained market
DOI: 10.1504/IJAMS.2008.020036 | Erio Castagnoli, Gino Favero | We show how the well-known Farkas Lemma, commonly used to characterise absence of arbitrages in perfect markets, is also exploitable to ascertain the completeness of a market with total short sales constraints. The generalisation of this le... | 90 - 96 |
Conceptualisation of Total Six Sigma Function Deployment through literature snapshots
DOI: 10.1504/IJAMS.2008.020036 | V. Thirunavukkarasu, S.R. Devadasan, G.V. Prabhushankar, R. Murugesh, K.M. Senthilkumar | This paper presents the snapshots observed by reviewing the literature on Six Sigma. This literature review enabled to study the history of Six Sigma programme and its development phases. This study indicated the flexible and expanding natu... | 97 - 122 |
Preface: Building six interfaces is the paramount mission of IJAMS 