This report proposed a genetic algorithm (GA) based stochastic optimization method for gridconnected residential renewable energy (solar/wind) system layout design and module selection. With the customer input of housing location, electricity demand, default system input of location-specified historical weather data, PV/inverter/turbine module database, forecast model for electricity retail/who...

A key to an optimal assortment of goods and pricing of individual items in a store is the knowledge about potential customer’s behaviour. In this paper we present the simulation of individual customers based on a multiagent system which models the important elements and external influences as single agents. An agent can be member of several agent groups which are represented as holons. We model...

A logistics customer service model is a critical competitive advantage that enhances both customer satisfaction and firm performance. Researchers have developed several models for assessing customer requirements, measuring product performance, and positioning products. However, handling customers’ linguistic preferences and uncertain product attributes remain significant and unresolved problems...

In many markets, customer preferences depend on the activity of the customer. The authors have previously demonstrated a model that allows the testing of the qualitative judgements of domain experts in spirits markets against relevant EPOS price and sales data. This paper extends the use of context dependent customer preferences to the case where domain experts lack confidence in their judgemen...

Web-enabled electronic business is generating massive amounts of data on customer purchases, browsing patterns, usage times, and preferences at an increasing rate. Data mining techniques can be applied to all the data being collected for obtaining useful information. This chapter attempts to present issues associated with data mining for Web-enabled electronicbusiness.

This study aims to test the influence of perception, preference and knowledge on interest being a customer in Islamic banks with religiosity as moderation variable. research uses type field quantitative approach. The data source this is primary obtained from results questionnaires assessments using likert scale. population was 100 respondents. In analysis, analysis technique used regression mod...

Conventional models of single district plurality elections show that with three parties anything can happen extreme policies can win regardless of voter preferences. I show that when there are multiple district elections for a legislature we get back to a world where the median voter matters: an extreme policy will generally only come about if it is preferred by the median voter in a majority o...

We consider a multilateral bargaining game in which the agents can be classified into two groups according to their instantaneous preferences. In one of these groups there is one agent with a different discount factor. We analyze how this time-preference heterogeneity may generate multiplicity of equilibria. When such an agent is sufficiently more patient than the rest, there is an equilibrium ...

The fair use flat rate is a promising tariff concept for the mobile telecommunication industry. Similar to classical flat rates it allows unlimited usage at a fixed monthly fee. Contrary to classical flat rates it limits the access speed once a certain usage threshold is exceeded. Due to the current global roll-out of the LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology and the related economic changes for...