This paper continues our study on the management of multi-product, capacitated re-entrant lines. Based on the theoretical framework developed in 2], we discuss some insights obtained by a simulation study. We are interested in understanding the performance of implementable capacity management schemes (No-sharing, Partial Sharing and Total Sharing) and production rules (Linear Scaling, Equalize ...

The IBM benchmarks for DB2 have shown that in a 100% data sharing environment the throughput loss is less than 17% with an additional fixed cost of 2-3% for Sysplex management. The benchmarks which we conducted in a Sysplex/CICSplex/DB2 data sharing environment yielded less than 12% overall overhead, but more importantly we can demonstrate that only those workloads with a high degree of data sh...

In this paper I develop an overlapping generations model that incorporates bad behaviors (such as smoking and unhealthy eating habits that lead to obesity) to investigate the equilibrium effects of different cost sharing mechanisms and excise taxation on bad behaviors and medical expenditures. I show that while higher cost sharing induces individuals to refrain from bad behaviors, it has mixed ...