The oxidation of cereal (1→3,1→4)-β-D-glucan can influence the health promoting and technological properties of this linear, soluble homopolysaccharide by introduction of new functional groups or chain scission. Apart from deliberate oxidative modifications, oxidation of β-glucan can already occur during processing and storage, which is mediated by hydroxyl radicals (HO•) formed by the Fenton r...

According to literature, penetration pricing is the dominant pricing strategy for network effect markets. In this paper we show that diffusion of products in a network effect market does not only vary with the set of pricing strategies chosen by competing vendors but also strongly depends on the topological structure of the customers' network. This stresses the inappropriateness of classical "i...

Due to the rapid development of technology in recent years, market competition and customer expectations have increased more than ever. In this situation, it is vital for businesses survival to determine the appropriate policy for inventory control, pricing, and routing, and decisions regarding each of them are often made separately. If the products have a perishable nature, it will be more imp...

In a competitive electricity market with substantial involvement of renewable electricity, maximizing profits by optimizing bidding strategies is crucial to different power producers including conventional power plants and renewable ones. This paper proposes a game-theoretic bidding optimization method based on bi-level programming, where power producers are at the upper level and utility compa...

The literature provides some stylized guidelines for choosing between skimming and penetration pricing for new products in simple competitive scenarios. However, these guidelines do not resolve the practical dynamic pricing problem in the current complex dynamic environments, characterized by numerous brands, each with multiple products and price points, and differentiated on a variety of produ...

We describe and contrast different market mechanisms to incentivize residential electricity customers to perform demand response (DR) via load shifting of schedulable assets. A customer-incentive pricing (CIP) mechanism from our past research is discussed, and compared to flat-rate, time-of-use (TOU), and real-time pricing (RTP). The comparison is made using a for-profit aggregator-based reside...