abstract the objective of this study is evaluation of government’s optimum combination of policy instruments on per capita consumption of bread and the share of this product in food cost of families in different income classes. the minimization of changes in dead weight loss function is used in this study. by using boot strop method and on base of normal distribution for supply elasticity and d...

for any organization sound marketing strategy and quality assurance play vital role in the growth of the organization. the price, quality and service, service centers, friendly attitude, discounts on sales, esthetics, store location and appearance, ease of operations, guarantees and warranties, adopting new ideas, and flexible payments terms were considered to study the perceptions of the respo...

evaluation of agricultural policies is an important issue in agricultural economics literature. economists evaluate policies on base of their welfare effects. the objective of this study is outcome subsidies removing for wheat and bread and its effect on producers and consumers. the minimization of changes in welfare loss is used in this study. the results of the welfare outcomes in wheat marke...

This paper presents a revenue maximisation model for sales channel allocation based on dynamic programming. It helps the media seller to determine how to distribute the sales volume of page views between guaranteed and nonguaranteed channels for display advertising. The model can algorithmically allocate and price the future page views via standardised guaranteed contracts in addition to real-t...

We present a new model for revenue management of product sales that incorporates both dynamic pricing and a price guarantee. The guarantee provides customers with compensation if, prior to a fixed future date, the price of the product drops below a level specified at the time of purchase. We consider the problem of simultaneously determining optimal dynamic price and guarantee policies for item...

Current IaaS clouds provide performance guarantee on CPU and memory but no quantitative network performance for VM instances. Our measurements from three production IaaS clouds show that for the VMs with same CPU and memory, or similar pricing, the difference in bandwidth performance can be as much as 16×, which reveals a severe price-performance anomaly due to a lack of pricing for bandwidth g...