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作者：Harter, DE; Krishnan, MS; Slaughter, SA
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：The information technology (IT) industry is characterized by rapid innovation and intense competition. To survive, IT firms must develop high quality software products on time and at low cost. A key issue is whether high levels of quality can be achieved without adversely impacting cycle time and effort. Conventional beliefs hold that processes to improve software quality can be implemented only at the expense of longer cycle times and greater development effort. However, an alternate view is ...
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作者：Krishnan, MS; Kriebel, CH; Kekre, S; Mukhopadhyay, T
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：We examine the relationship between life-cycle productivity and conformance quality in software products. The effects of product size, personnel capability, software process, usage of tools, and higher front-end investments on productivity and conformance quality were analyzed to derive managerial implications based on primary data collected on commercial software projects from a leading vendor. Our key findings are as follows. First, our results provide evidence for significant increases in l...
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作者：Zhao, W; Zheng, YS
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We consider a dynamic pricing model for selling a given stock of a perishable product over a finite time horizon. Customers, whose reservation price distribution changes over time, arrive according to a nonhomogeneous Poisson process. We show that at any given time, the optimal price decreases with inventory. We also identify a sufficient condition under which the optimal price decreases over time for a given inventory level. This sufficient condition requires that the willingness of a custome...
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作者：Faraj, S; Sproull, L
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; New York University
摘要：Like all teams, knowledge teams must acquire and manage critical resources in order to accomplish their work. The most critical resource for knowledge teams is expertise, or specialized skills and knowledge, but the mere presence of expertise on a team is insufficient to produce high-quality work. Expertise must be managed and coordinated in order to leverage its potential. That is, teams must be able to manage their skill and knowledge interdependencies effectively through expertise coordinat...
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作者：Mamer, JW; McBride, RD
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of Southern California
摘要：We propose and test a new pricing procedure for solving large-scale structured linear programs. The procedure interactively solves a relaxed subproblem to identify potential entering basic columns. The subproblem is chosen to exploit special structure, rendering it easy to solve. The effect of the procedure is the reduction of the number of pivots needed to solve the problem. Our approach is motivated by the column-generation approach of Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition. We test our procedure on tw...
