Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to develop and empirically test the antecedent, mediating and moderating role of switching costs on the relationship between satisfaction and loyalty. Design/methodology/approach - ...

Em modelos de competição de preços, somente um custo de procura positivo por parte do consumidor não gera equilíbrio com dispersão de preços. Já modelos dinâmicos de switching cost consistentemente geram este fenômeno ...

This paper presents a robust switched controller design to minimize an upper bound of a quadratic index (guaranteed cost) based on the output and the control input of uncertain nonlinear systems described by polynomial ...

The benefits of competition are recognized and promoted in most industries, however they are not evident and have been questioned in the Education sector. The difficulty to measure competition, the idea that parents don't ...

In a dynamic competition model where firms initially share half of the market and consumers have switching costs, consumers’ sophistication, lifespan and concentration impact the possibility to set collusive prices. I first ...

This manuscript proposes a robust switched controller design with minimization of an upper bound of a quadratic performance index (guaranteed cost) related to the system output for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems ...

In this work, a robust switched controller design using output feedback is proposed. The minimization of the output energy is taken into account as a design strategy to reduce the settling time and oscillations of the ...

This paper is concerned with the design of variable structure controllers for uncertain switched linear plants. The proposed method is based on Lyapunov–Metzler inequalities and on properties of strictly positive real (SPR) ...

This paper addresses the issue of robust H∞ control for a class of continuous-time uncertain switched linear systems. A set of state-feedback gains and two switching rules are designed to render the closed-loop system ...