Aggregating the Demand Response (DR) is approved as an effective solution to improve the participation of consumers to wholesale electricity markets. DR aggregator can negotiate the amount of collected DR of their customers with transmission system operator, distributors, and retailers in Demand Response eXchange (DRX) market, in addition to participate in the energy market. In this paper, a fr...

Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) are the major drivers of economic growth in developing countries promise future departure from poverty among low regions. In Kenya, there was an increase total assets 556.7 billion 2020 to 627.7 2021, which represented a 12.7% growth. The gross loans grew 419.6 2019 474.8 representing 13.2% increase. However, SACCOs have continuously faced with large mem...

Nowadays, internet technology provides an opportunity for banks and financial institutions to take advantages in dynamic and competitive turbulent environment in their favor. In addition, considering the importance and status of internet banking and growing trend of it in the country in recent years, now banks and financial institutions have found that maintaining status and effective developme...

Organizations have used Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) as an appropriate pattern to classify their customers. Data mining techniques have enabled organizations to analyze their customers’ behaviors more quantitatively. This research has been carried out to cluster customers based on factors of CLV model including length, recency, frequency, and monetary (LRFM) through data mining. Based on LRFM,...

The presented method of determining the risk associated with the failure in water supply systems (WSS) was based on the results of study on the operation of water supply networks and the related failures. The implementation of fuzzy logic proposed in this paper allows to determine the failure risk depending on defined by fuzzy functions two parameters: the duration of the lack of water supply a...

Firms that do better than their competitors in terms of satisfying customers, generate superior return at lower risk. Satisfied customers are more loyal, less sensitive to price movements. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of customer satisfaction on shareholders’ value creation. Customer satisfaction involves behavior of customers that typically relate to purchase or consumption o...

Co-operation between different parties and effective safety management play an important role in ensuring safety in multiemployer worksites. This article reviews safety co-operation and factors complicating safety management in Finnish multiemployer manufacturing worksites. The paper focuses on the service providers' opinions; however, a comparison of the customers' views is also presented. The...