This article presents the optimization design of the combined Shewhart chart and CUSUM chart ( chart in short) used in Statistical Process Control (SPC). While the optimization design effectively improves the overall performance of the chart over the entire process shift range, it does not...

One important factor concerning economic models is that frequently large amounts of data are produced. There is the research issue of how end-users (who may not be researchers or model developers) can be presented with this data so that maximum benefits can be attained from the data production....

This paper considers the application of information visualization techniques to an agent-based model of a financial system. The minority game is a simple agent-based model which can be used to simulate the events in a real-world financial market. To aid understanding of this model, we can apply...

Records of over half a million participants in more than 600 401(k) plans indicate that participants tend to allocate their contributions evenly across the funds they use, with the tendency weakening with the number of funds used. The number of funds used, typically between three and four, is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to advance the concept of “integrative capability” as a critical dynamic capability (DC) and empirically investigate its implications for a firm’s sustainable competitive advantage in business partnerships. Design/methodology/approach – This study...

Magnetic properties of a biaxial spin-1 system in an applied transverse field are investigated by using the effective-field theory with correlations on the basis of the differential technique. We have studied the effects of the transverse field on the phase diagrams, internal energy, and...

The Transverse Ising Model (TIM) based on the effective-field theory has been developed to study the physical properties of the ferroelectric bilayer system BaTiO3/SrTiO3 (BTO/STO), based on the differential operator technique. The effect of strain on the interfacial layers between two different...

Magnetic properties of a biaxial spin system on the honeycomb and square lattice have been studied based on the effective-field theory with the differential operator technique. The effects of the external longitudinal magnetic field on the magnetization and susceptibility are discussed in...

The mixed spin-12 and spin-32 transverse Ising model with a crystal field is studied within the framework of the effective-field theory with correlations. The phase diagrams and thermal behaviors of magnetizations are investigated numerically for the honeycomb (z=3). The results show that there...

The properties of spin-32 transverse Ising model with the anisotropic crystal field interaction are studied by using the effective-field theory with correlations based on both the approximated Van der Waerden identity and the differential operator technique. The longitudinal and transverse...