Title :
Research on the evolving model of product warranty network
Author :
Yu, Jian ; Wang, Jia-Jia
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Manage., Hangzhou Dianzi Univ., Hangzhou, China
Abstract :
In this paper, we explore the connotation of product warranty network based on the theory of cooperative networks in corporation and product warranty. On the rule of weight preferential attachment, local-world, attractive factor, the evolving model of product warranty network is proposed, giving distribution results of vertex weight and link weight. Both analysis and simulation results show that product warranty network demonstrates the characteristic of scale-free, which indicates that assuring relationship between corporations distributes unevenly. Most corporations have a small number of assuring relationships, whereas a few core corporations, exist as hubs in network, possess abundant assuring relationships, thus these corporations have the power of influence on the stability of the whole product warranty network.
Keywords :
organisational aspects; production management; warranties; cooperative networks; corporations; evolving model; product warranty network; weight preferential attachment; Automobiles; Robustness; Silicon; Warranties; attractive factor; complex networks; cooperative networks in corporation; local-world; product warranty; scale- free;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IE&EM), 2010 IEEE 17Th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Xiamen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6483-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICIEEM.2010.5646667