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Optimization Theory Question Bank

Faculty Shruti Kohli SP\1 2 Question Bank Optimization Theory 1. What is operations research? Explain the scope of OR. 2. List the phases of OR and explain them. 3. Define the following: a. Feasible region. b. Feasible solution. c. Optimal solution. d. Unbounded solution. e. Artificial variable. 4. What is the difference between feasible solution and basic feasible solution? 5. Define What are the two forms of a LPP? Explain in detail. 6. What do you mean by standard form of LPP? 7. What do you mean by canonical form of LPP? 8. What are the limitations of LPP? 9. What are the slack and surplus variables? 10. What is meant by optimality? 11. What are the methods used to solve an LPP involving artificial variables? 12. Explain various steps of the simplex method involved in the computation of an optimum solution to a linear programming problem. 13. What is...

E-Commerce Question Bank

E-Commerce Question Bank E-Commerce Question Bank 1. What is the difference between e-commerce and e-business portal? 2. Discuss the seven unique features of E-commerce technology? 3. Discuss E-commerce I and II? Contract their pros and cons? 4. Discuss evolution of Internet in detail? 5. Discuss C2C model in detail? 6. What do you understand by EDI? 7. Explain working of EDI with example? 8. How can EDI be used by a a. Manufacturing company b. Courier Company 9. Discuss potential limitations of e-commerce in detail? 10. What are the basic components of EDI? How does it work? 11. What are the benefits of the EDI? What are possible challenges? 12. What is information symmetry? 13. Give examples of B2C,B2B,C2C,P2P? 14. How are the Internet and the web similar to or different from other technologies that have changed commerce in the post? 15. Discuss key technologies of WWW? 16. What are benefits of having universal standard? 17. Describe the five primar...

Web Economy to DOUBLE in G20 Countries in Next 4 Years

The value of the web economy for the G20 countries will nearly double in the coming 4 years i.e. by 2016. This study was carried out by the prestigious Boston Consulting Group with the support of web giant Google. According to the study, following are the major highlighted points: 3 billion people will be using the internet i.e. approx 50% of world population. Upsurge of revenue from $2.3 trillion(currently larger than Brazilian economy) to $4.3 tn. Currently, 200 million new people are adding to online community annually. Nearly 80% of all internet users will access internet via Mobile Phones. UK currently the most advanced e-commerce economies. China expected to be home to 800 million internet users (more than US, India, France, Germany & UK combined). Rise of so called "Internet of Things", where every device from cars to sensors will be connected to the web. By 2015, 1 trillion devices will be internet connected (IBM's report). Currently,...

ADVERTISING - Main Component of Promotion

--> Advertising is a form of communication used to encourage or persuade an audience (viewers, readers or listeners) to continue or take some new action. Advertising is a paid form of Non personnel presentation of Goods & Services by an identified sponsor. It is Basically Marketing a product to mass level of target audience.     Effective Advertising Consumer Awareness/ Reach Consumer Recall Value/Visit   Actual Sales              Types of advertising 1)     Celebrity branding 2)     Street Advertising 3)     Coffee cup Advertising 4)     In-store Advertising 5)     Billboard advertising 6)     Press advertising 7)     Covert advertising 8)     Online advertising 9)     Radio Advertising 10) Infomercials 11) Television adver...

M-Commerce *Next Generation E-Commerce*

M-Commerce is also said as next generation E-Commerce. It is firing up its importance especially in the field of Retail Industry. This is becoming a new and the latest way of connecting with customers. This is evidenced by the fact that mobile devices account for more than a quarter of online shopping and mostly on festive seasons like Christmas or New Year. Through M-Commerce you can easily select various categories and sub-categories.There is also an option of searching for the latest offers at restaurants, spas, and other entertainment places which are nearby or far. M-Commerce takes place through various mobile devices, mobile phones, Personal Digital Assistance (PDA), a Smartphone, or any upcoming mobile equipment like Dastop Mobile Devices. Various Services provided by M-Commerce are:- 1) Financial Services like mobile banking or brokerage service. 2)Retail Service 3)Informative Service 4)Location Based Services like local discount , offers etc 5)Mobile Marketing and Ad...

Blocking or removing pages using a robots.txt file

Before we go further let us identify what is a robots.txt file? A robots.txt file is a file which restricts access a site. Most of the search engines have robots that crawl the web. These bots are automated. They access pages of a site and check the contents of robots.txt file to verify whether this file prevents access to certain pages. You need a robots.txt file only if your site includes content that you don't want search engines to index. In case if one wants search engines to index everything on their web site then no one needs a robots.txt file. For using a robots.txt file one needs to access the root of the domain. You can check more information on http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449