LIFTING TANKS - Seismic Analysis of Liquid-Storage Tanks with a
Focus on Tank-Base Uplift
ABSTRACT
The recent European economic crisis showed that effective use of resources is more important than ever for sustainability
of companies. Inter-organizational cooperation is foreseen as a good opportunity to achieve further efficiency in operations
that companies require to stay competitive in a global economy. However, up to now, very little quantitative insights and
tools have been developed for managers that can actually help them in establishing such collaboration. In this proposed
research, we focus on the difficulties in collaboration of service systems from an economic point of view using the techniques
developed in the domain of Game Theory and Operations Research. Our ultimate aim is to create managerial insights that will
help the practitioners to form sustainable collaboration by devising tools and rules for stable and fair allocation of benefits.
As a fundamental step, the proposed research will investigate cooperative games of service systems and service supply
chains in which cooperation by sharing resources improve the systems performance (reduce cost or increase profit). There
are only a limited number of studies and little theoretical results in the literature that will help researcher to study these
cooperative systems in more detail. This proposal will fill this gap by developing a mathematical framework and theoretical
background that will help to characterise the cores of these games as much as possible and hopefully boost further research
in the area.
Yrd. Doç. Dr.
Bülent Erkmen
DEPARTMENT
Civil Engineering
CONTACT
[email protected]
FUNDING SCHEME
EC Marie Curie International
Incoming Fellowships Fund
2014 Grants Civil Engineering
START DATE
01.10.2014
DURATION
24 months
OZU BUDGET
167,390.40 EUR
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