Title :
A distributed computing approach for marketable quality and profitability of corporations
Author :
Barolli, Valbona ; Fukuda, Heihachiro
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Eng., Fukuoka Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
The main objective of this paper is to provide an evaluation method for both: the quality aspect of corporations (marketable quality) and the profitability. First, we define the corporation rate of operation and profitability. Based on these definitions, we present a model to identify the profitability function considering the rate of operation at the break-even point. This function is considered as the marketable quality indicator from the viewpoint of a fair relationship between producers and consumers. In this paper, we consider only the fair relationship. We apply the real values of some leading manufacturing corporations in Japan to our proposed model to analyze its accuracy. From the analysis we concluded that the theoretical and real standard values of the marketable quality indicator were both 0.6 (that is 60%).
Keywords :
distributed processing; electronic commerce; marketing; profitability; quality management; Japan manufacturing corporation; break-even point; corporation profitability; distributed computing; marketable quality indicator; Acceleration; Costs; Distributed computing; Engineering management; Marketing and sales; Production; Profitability; Quality management; Technology management; Virtual manufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2005. Proceedings. 11th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2281-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICPADS.2005.18