Earlier this year, lawmakers warned of an impending energy crisis as they debated wide-ranging legislation to improve automotive efficiency, reward energy conservation and spur development of alternative power sources.
A spokesman said this was a widespread practice that provided a small "efficiency" reward for the difficult task of enforcing the rules on weight allowances and having to handle irate customers.
The configuration of complex systems to improve their efficiency (reward), risk, or a combination of both performance measures has long been a goal of systems engineering.
Whatever emerges from Copenhagen, we are fast moving toward a day when excesses will be punished and efficiencies rewarded by that most powerful of forces: the market.
She said water meters, efficiency kits, rewards for saving water and on-off restrictions could cut nearly one third from water demand.
For maximum efficiency, request rewards from a "preferred site" in your country/language.
And, in the process, we can encourage domestic energy sources, provide incentives for alternative energy, promote efficiency and reward conservation.
Pepsi gains huge turnkey efficiency in reward program processing and fulfillment.
The risk of the system is modeled as the standard deviation of the profits of the various scenarios, while the efficiency or reward of the system is computed as the expected value of the scenario profits.
By this we generally mean that digital rewards efficiency, like a better taxi service, a better shopping service, a better way to get everything you've ever wanted delivered to your door.
The system would reward efficiency and quality, not just quantity.
