Website www.icra.in The Indian telecom industry has witnessed significant growth in subscriber base over the last decade, with increasing network coverage and a competition-induced decline in tariffs playing facilitators. The growth story and the potential have also served to attract newer players in the industry, with the result that the intensity of competition has kept increasing, forcing th...

In the restructured environment of electricity market, firstly the generating companies and the customers are looking for maximizing their profit and secondly independent system operator is looking for the stability of the power network and maximizing social welfare. In this paper, a one way auction in the electricity market for the generator companies is considered in both perfect and imperfec...

in the restructured environment of electricity market, firstly the generating companies and the customers are looking for maximizing their profit and secondly independent system operator is looking for the stability of the power network and maximizing social welfare. in this paper, a one way auction in the electricity market for the generator companies is considered in both perfect and imperfec...

competitiveness is considered as a key criterion for assessing the success of countries, industries and companies. world economic forum defines competitiveness as the set of institutions, policies and factors that determine the level of productivity. moreover, competitiveness can be defined as acquisition more market share, greater profitability and long-term stability and growth of these indic...

Faced with surging drug development costs and fierce generic competition, pharmaceutical companies are under increasing pressure to find ways to increase and prolong the profitability of both existing and new products. In addition, many of the advanced molecules being developed by biotechnology companies require more efficient delivery than that offered by conventional delivery routes and syste...

Increasing emphasis on supply chain management and growing competition in electronic commerce encourages companies to streamline order fulfillment through information systems. Many companies use more than one warehouse so they can benefit from an order-allocation system that assigns customer orders to warehouses. This paper outlines issues that must be considered in designing such a system, rec...

In the last years, the demand of embedded systems has been increased. Also, due to the increasing competition among different kind of companies, such as cellular phone, automobiles and industrial automation, the requirements for such systems are getting more complex. However, the data storage and processing techniques, for these environments, are insufficient for the new requirements. In this p...