The bamboo industry is facing good opportunities for development in China, but it faces enormous challenges, too. From the level of bamboo industrial development, mainly in the following aspects: the level of bamboo resources management is low, cultivate direction is not clear, operating methods are backward, production is not high, processing or utilization of bamboo products is small-scale an...

We study a pricing problem where buyers with non-uniform demand purchase one of many items. Each buyer has a known benefit for each item and purchases the item that gives the largest utility, which is defined to be the difference between the benefit and the price of the item. The optimization problem is to decide on the prices that maximize total revenue of the seller. This problem is also call...

In recent years, marine cultural tourism, an emerging tourism mode, has become more and more popular among tourists, and demonstrates broad market prospects. However, Chinese marine cultural tourism is still in the development and growth stage, and the level of customer satisfaction is uneven. The improvement of the customer satisfaction level is conducive to meeting customers’ demands in marin...

Customer integration has many recognised advantages, but also entails negative side effects that may impair the success of innovative activities. These negative side effects have not yet been sufficiently investigated. Whereas some may occur within the entire early innovation phase, others are likely to affect only few sub-phases. Each sub-phase, defined in a slightly new way as compared with e...

This paper discusses the reliability driven approach towards developing software solutions and products. Requirements deficiencies were the cause of 99% of their field reliability problems. This has been expanded by Brendan Murphy to say that the problems on computer systems were mostly due to requirements deficiencies and interface weaknesses. This paper aims to provide a consolidated checklis...

The rapid development of E-Commerce not only generate huge amount of business opportunities but also raises a new question to the supporting platform of E-Commerce. Nowadays, E-commerce platform design is one of the hot spot of E-commerce research. The traditional 3-layered E-commerce platform can’t meet the requirement of today’s E-commerce application which is more complicated than before[1]....

CRM has been realized as a core for the growth of any enterprise. This requires both the customer satisfaction and fulfillment of customer requirement, which can only be achieved by analyzing consumer behaviors. The data mining has become an effective tool since often the organizations have large databases of information on customers. However, the traditional data mining techniques have no rele...

The paper exploits distributed object technology to develop an enterprise application that integrates material requirement planning (MRP) with job shop simulator. The application aims to realize an integrated system that has rapid response to changing requirements and capability to integrate heterogeneous manufacturing facilities. At first, the application accepts the customer’s order and perfo...

Cash forecasting plays a vital role in any financial organization to maintain the optimal cash balance to satisfy the customer needs on a daily basis without any delay. In the traditional approach statistical methods were used for cash forecasting. Banks have great challenges to avoid the surplus cash as well as to keep adequate cash to meet the customer demand. An intelligent model is needed t...

Test case prioritization involves scheduling test cases in an order that increases the effectiveness in achieving some performance goals. One of the most important performance goals is the rate of fault detection. Test cases should run in an order that increases the possibility of fault detection and also that detects the most severe faults at the earliest in its testing life cycle. In this pap...