This paper reflects the possibility of doing adaptations on a LMS depending on the necessities of a company or institution. In this case, ACEM allows the definition of course-level and platform-level reports and the automatic generation of certificates and diplomas for Moodle LMS. These adaptations are intended to complement all the different learning platforms by contributing added-value featu...

Scheduling any complicated job shop becomes increasingly more difficult when the cycle time is reduced. This paper will discuss the implementation of a simulationbased scheduling system that properly schedules parts in a two-plant operation. The system has allowed the company to reduce the cycle time by at least a week from two/three weeks to one/two weeks. As part of the project, the generatio...

The risks and returns associated with different choices of electricity generation technology cannot properly be considered in isolation. The paper considers their impact on an investing company, using Mean-Variance Portfolio (MVP) theory to identify optimal generation portfolios in liberalised electricity markets characterised by fuel, CO2, and electricity price risk. The paper demonstrates the...

This is a delightful book, and in some ways an alarming one. It deals with the special entertainment films for children, produced by Mary Field for the J. Arthur Rank Organisation between 1944 and 1950. She called the book "Good Company", because her aim was to see that for a few hours each week, children should have an opportunity of "intimacy with good example", believing that "the friends yo...

in the present study, a number of iranian it professionals and electronic commerce managers are surveyed in order to investigate their viewpoints about the level of importance for determinant factors affecting the generation of trust among the internet consumers. to accomplish this, a model, which is adopted from the existing models in the e-trust literature, is offered to represent the crucial...

Description Liberalised electricity markets represent a delicate equilibrium between regulatory targets to keep prices at acceptable levels and keeping prices high enough to ensure adequate return on investment for generation companies. From the viewpoint of the generation company, these capacity investment decisions are highly complex. Electricity prices are volatile which, instead of a guaran...

In the fast growing literature that addresses the problem of the optimal bidding behaviour of power generation companies that sell energy in electricity auctions, it is always assumed that every firm knows the aggregate supply function of its competitors. Since this information is generally not available, real data have to be substituted by predictions. In this paper we propose two alternative ...

In 2011 senior managers at a UK electricity distribution company faced a training and assessment challenge that would have been very difficult to address using conventional methods. This paper describes the challenge they faced and the reasons for using the Construed Antonym Realization Exercise (CARE) generation methodology to create Multiple Alternative Choice (MAC) test items as part of the ...

This paper presents an online energy management system based on a virtual energy provisioning (VEP) concept. VEP is a novel demand side management inspired by the lean supply chain technology. It aims to control the process of energy generation, delivery, and consumption under the mechanism called “order-then-production” principle. This means electricity should be ordered by end consumers in ad...