By the in-depth development of economic globalization in recent years, market competition has become the focus of the fight against various companies. The survival and development of companies is not only depending on its own resources, but also relying on more value-oriented consumers. For companies around the world, their tasks are not only to take a variety of measures to deal with market ri...

Customer value creation is allegedly at the centre of relationships between service recipients and service providers (such as financial service organisations in general, and commercial banks in particular). This research considers the role of customer value creation in the strategic response of banks to external changes in their growth opportunities. The analysis established that there had been...

Applications of Lagrange's method of undetermined multipliers in physics and economics suggest some analogies between the two disciplines. By using the work of E. T. Jaynes on information theory, the long standing problem of Maxwell's demon in thermodynamics can be cast as a constrained optimization problem where information and energy are dual concepts. Temperature emerges as the energetic pri...

Big data is emerging in recent years as an evolutionary phenomenon. Many new concepts and business models driven by data are introduced as a result. We in this research are motivated to investigate the value side of big data. We examine the financial statements in CAC40 companies in order to discover the relationship between stock performance and depth of corporate data involvement. Our results...

the aim of this paper is to present four strategies to increase the accuracy and speed of optimization of truss structures under the constraint of structural system failure probability (ssfp). in the first strategy based on the probability rules, a criterion is defined to avoid producing many correlated paths and obtain more accurate upper bound of ssfp. in the second strategy, the force method...

Since the advent of evolution strategies many attempts have been done to improve the mutation operator [7]. The first enhancement could be seen in the introduction of a flexible step size. As a logical consequence later n step sizes, one per variable, were used. Highest flexibility is achieved with the correlated mutation but also quadratic growth of the number of strategy parameters [8]. A new...