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Valerie Durand - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Dingwei Wang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a new approach to quality function deployment planning with Financial Consideration
    Computers & Operations Research, 2002
    Co-Authors: Jiafu Tang, Baodong Xu, Richard Y K Fung, Dingwei Wang
    Abstract:

    Quality function deployment (QFD) is becoming a widely used customer-oriented approach and tool in product design. Taking into account the Financial factors and uncertainties in the product design process, this paper deals with a fuzzy formulation combined with a genetic-based interactive approach to QFD planning. By introducing new concepts of planned degree, actual achieved degree, actual primary costs required and actual planned costs, two types of fuzzy optimisation models are discussed in this paper. These models consider not only the overall customer satisfaction, but also the enterprise satisfaction with the costs committed to the product. With the interactive approach, the best balance between enterprise satisfaction and overall customer satisfaction can be obtained, and the preferred solutions under different business criteria can be achieved through human-computer interaction.

  • A new approach to quality function deployment planning with Financial Consideration
    Computers and Operations Research, 2002
    Co-Authors: Jiafu Tang, Baodong Xu, Richard Y K Fung, Dingwei Wang
    Abstract:

    Quality function deployment (QFD) is becoming a widely used customer-oriented approach and tool in product design. Taking into account the Financial factors and uncertainties in the product design process, this paper deals with a fuzzy formulation combined with a genetic-based interactive approach to QFD planning. By introducing new concepts of planned degree, actual achieved degree, actual primary costs required and actual planned costs, two types of fuzzy optimisation models are discussed in this paper. These models consider not only the overall customer satisfaction, but also the enterprise satisfaction with the costs committed to the product. With the interactive approach, the best balance between enterprise satisfaction and overall customer satisfaction can be obtained, and the preferred solutions under different business criteria can be achieved through human-computer interaction. Quality function deployment (QFD) that originated in Japan in the late 1960s is a concept and mechanism for translating the 'voice of customer' into product through various stages of product planning, engineering and manufacturing. It has become a widely used customer-oriented approach to facilitating product design by analysing customer requirements (CRs). Determination of the target levels for the technical attributes (TAs) of a product with a view to achieving a high level of overall customer satisfaction is an important activity in product design and development. Traditional methods for QFD planning are mainly subjective, ad hoc and heuristic. They can hardly achieve global optimisation, and most of these models barely take into Consideration the correlation between TAs. Moreover, most of these methods are technically one-sided without considering the design budget. However, the Financial factor is also an important factor and should not be neglected in QFD planning. In addition, owing to uncertainties involved in the decision process, these deterministic methods could not formulate and solve it effectively. Taking into Consideration the Financial factors and uncertainties in the product design process, this paper deals with fuzzy formulation combined with a genetic-based interactive approach to QFD planning. By introducing new concepts of planned degree, actual achieved degree, actual primary costs required and actual planned costs, two types of fuzzy optimisation models are discussed in this paper. These models consider not only the overall customer satisfaction, but also the enterprise satisfaction with the costs committed to the product. With the interactive approach, the best balance between enterprise satisfaction and overall customer satisfaction can be obtained, and the preferred solutions under different business criteria can be achieved through human-computer interaction. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Michael Weber - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Expanding Carbon Stocks in Existing Forests – A Methodological Approach for Cost Appraisal at the Enterprise Level
    Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2006
    Co-Authors: Thomas Knoke, Michael Weber
    Abstract:

    The study presents a comprehensive methodology for the appraisal of C-stock expansion in existing forests as a forest management activity according to Art. 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol. It allows for producer costs of carbon sequestration in forest enterprises to be derived. The methodology is based on a non-linear programming approach considering economic optimisation as well as ecological, social and sustainability needs through constraints and risk integration. While introducing further constraints on carbon stocks, the carbon stored in forest biomass was increased in periodic increments. However, while extending the carbon stocks, the ecological and social constraints as well as sustainability requirements are not to be violated. Costs were derived for every additional Mg (Megagrams) of C per ha sequestered in comparison to a baseline management. Two basic cases were considered: First, a permanent carbon sequestration was assumed. Secondly, a temporary storage of additional carbon over 10 years was supposed. The potential willingness of buyers of carbon certificates to pay for temporary carbon sequestration was derived by a Financial Consideration. We assumed that, for a buyer, the value of a temporary carbon sequestration certificate would be equivalent to the return on the savings because an investment in technical measures on reduction of carbon emissions can be postponed. Temporary carbon storage proved to be an interesting alternative when compared with permanent sequestration of carbon. Basically the costs of additional Mg C sequestered increased when carbon sequestration in periodic increments was enlarged. Given a market price of 11.42 Euro per Mg C for 10-year temporary carbon storage, the management of the forest could expand additional sequestration up to 6 Mg C per ha. Doing so, additional carbon sequestration generates an economic surplus as the costs of the last Mg C per ha would equal the market price.

Sasima Charoenkit - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Building low-carbon and disaster-resilient communities: integrating climate mitigation and adaptation into the assessment of self-help housing design
    Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2017
    Co-Authors: Sasima Charoenkit
    Abstract:

    Housing is not only one of the major sources of carbon dioxide (CO_2) emissions, but it has been increasingly vulnerable to climate-induced disasters, particularly those sheltering the urban poor. Both mitigation and adaptation measures are therefore required for the design and construction of low-income housing to encourage low carbon development and improve resilience to disasters. As self-help housing—the common type of housing for the urban poor in developing countries—is usually built by ordinary people with participatory approach, it is crucial to develop a low-carbon and disaster-resilient assessment tool for assisting them in making informed decisions during planning process. The objective of this article is to propose a new approach for developing a low-carbon and disaster-resilient assessment tool for self-help housing (LoDAT-SH) by combining opinions from experts and community residents to assign weights, identify indicators, and establish benchmarks with the aim to develop a simple, relevant, and practical tool for non-expert users like self-help residents. The application of the proposed methodology to a case study of a developing country, Thailand, shows the ability of LoDAT-SH, which contains 45 indicators in the four categories of low carbon development, disaster resilience, community participation, and Financial Consideration, in enabling self-help residents to assess the performance of their housing design, identify potential measures to create a low-carbon and disaster-resilient housing, and prioritize such actions. To support the creation of a low-carbon and disaster-resilient housing as the mitigation and adaptation strategy for urban development at the global level, the study suggests that the methodology of LoDAT-SH should be replicated to develop a more comprehensive assessment tool applicable for the use in self-help housing design in other developing countries, which will house about 900 million of the urban poor by 2020.

Jerome Reid - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • vfr is it really marginal a Financial Consideration of french overseas travellers
    Journal of Vacation Marketing, 2005
    Co-Authors: Alastair A Morrison, Xinran You Lheto, Jonathan Webb, Jerome Reid
    Abstract:

    The economic contribution of the VFR (visiting friends and relatives) market to host destinations has been underestimated, largely due to a lack of accurate data and research on this segment. This underestimation seems to be linked to the noncommercial accommodation usage and assumed within-group homogeneity of VFR travellers. Using a large-scale national survey among French travellers visiting 17 different destination countries, this study aimed to re-evaluate the Financial value of VFR travellers and test their within-group differences. The results of the study suggested a need to reconsider the stereotypical description of VFR travellers; a significant portion of the French VFR market seems to be more lucrative compared with other types of travellers. In addition, these high-spending VFR travellers differ sharply from the low-spending VFR visitors in terms of their expenditure patterns and trip-related behaviours. Implications for destination marketing are also provided.