In this article, an integrated sales and leasing company is considered. This company remanufactures leased products at the end of operating lease contracts to make them as good as new ones and sell them to the customers. In order to satisfy customers' ...

We consider online leasing problems in which demands arrive over time and need to be served by leasing resources. We introduce a new model for these problems in which a resource can be leased for K different durations each incurring a different cost (...

Current theoretical attempts towards understanding real-life leasing scenarios assume the following leasing model. Demands arrive with time and need to be served by leased resources. Different types of leases are available, each with a fixed ...

Higher inflation rate and subsequently, higher prices make customers consider other options except purchasing products to meet their requirements. Therefore, demand for leasing is rising meaningfully in such conditions. Companies producing costly ...

In the leasing variant of Set Cover presented by Anthony et al. [1], elements arrive over time and must be covered by sets from a family of subsets of . Each set can be leased for different periods of time. Let and . Leasing a set for a ...

The rise of mobile computing platforms has given rise to a new class of applications: mobile applications that interact with peer applications running on neighbouring phones. Developing such applications is challenging because of problems inherent to ...

In case of leasing, the user rents equipment for a predetermined time. During this period, all maintenance actions are performed by the lessor. The aim of this research paper consists in determining an optimal maintenance policy for ensuring a minimum ...

This article deals with the usefulness of self organizing maps in the area of corporate finance. The application of neural networks improve bankruptcy forecasting by showing a relationship between capital structure and corporate performance. Our results ...

In the paper, we developed a resource management architecture for Jini federation. Jini introduces in a leasing concept that handles partial failure of distributed applications, and also supports service resource allocation. However, current leasing ...

Traditional networks are too complex to set up, expand, and manage. Jini is a new object technology that expands the power of Java platform to enable impromptu networking of a wide variety of digital devices and software services. Jini is designed for ...