Organization/ Association APICS The Association for Operations Management Purchasing Management Association of Canada (PMAC) National Institute of Governmental Purchasing, Inc. (NIGP) Universal Public Purchasing Certification Council (UPPCC) Procurement, Materiel Management and Real Property (PMMRP) Community Management Office, Acquired Services and Assets Sector (ASAS), Office of the Comptroll...

Negotiation events in industrial procurement involving multiple, highly customisable goods pose serious challenges to buying agents when trying to determine the best set of providing agents’ offers. Typically, a buying agent’s decision involves a large variety of constraints that may involve attributes of a very same item as well as attributes of different, multiple items. In this paper we pres...

The flexibility provided by prosumers is recognized as a key element for the management of electrical grids, in particular distribution changing scenario electricity generation and consumption. useful to Distribution System Operators (DSOs) strongly local, it necessary identify busses grid where can be usefully service requested DSO. For this purpose, concept perimeter adopted; defined set such...

As government agencies and business become more dependent on web services, software solutions to automate their procurement gain importance. Current approaches for automating the procurement of web services suffer from an important drawback: neither uncertainty measures nor non-linear, and complex relations among parameters can be used by providers to specify quality-ofservice in offers. In thi...

Auction is a mechanism of selling distinct assets that can be both physical objects and virtual objects. Examples of virtual objects are the rights to use assets like airport time slots and FCC spectrum, or to service truckload delivery routes in a transportation network. Under some situations bidding on combinations of objects can render lower total price compare with bidding the objects one a...

The rising cost of health care affects our economy and can impact the health of our citizens. Costs can be divided into direct costs, which are incurred in the provision of services and procedures, and ancillary costs, such as labs and imaging. While ancillary services greatly assist providers in diagnosing and treating medical conditions, they can be overused or inappropriately used and can le...