20.500.12556/DKUM-97135 Incentive modeling analysis in engineering applications and projects with stochastic duration time Incentives are quite common to be utilized in engineering applications such as some infrastructure development projects or construction projects. Due to the increasing complexity of construction management and the continuing trend towards outsourcing of component or engineering outsourcing activities, we focus on the issue of incentive design. Time collaboration is one of the main focuses of random project duration time in parallel projects. In this article, we consider a setting where a manufacturer outsources two parallel subtasks to two different suppliers, and the manufacturer is time sensitive. On the premise that the project completion time follows the exponential distribution, some models are established to compare the proposed incentives and we get the comparative analysis of the proposed incentives. This paper puts forward three kinds of time-based incentive mechanisms, namely, deadline incentive mechanism, competition mechanism and mixed incentive mechanism. We do modeling analysis for all incentive mechanisms. We get the optimal work rates determined by suppliers and compare various incentive mechanisms to maximize manufacturers' profits. engineering applications incentive mechanism modeling analysis stochastic duration time deadline incentive model competition model parallel subtasks mixed model inženirske aplikacije mehanizem spodbude modelska analiza model tekmovanja true false true Chair of Production Engineering (CPE), University of Maribor Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik https://apem-journal.org/ Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Članek v reviji 2026-02-19 12:34:30 2026-02-19 12:34:33 2026-02-20 03:13:32 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 str. 486-500 no. 4 Vol. 18 Dec. 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2023-07-12 2023-12-15 2023-12-28 62 269006595 10.14743/apem2023.4.487 1854-6250 APEM18-4_486-500.pdf APEM18-4_486-500.pdf 1 F26FF2341AB7CC8CBFCEE1C494A43459 a5233541de863d09bcf98fde04859bec92ca19c970d59148d84a9a3a708da39a 3616e115-0d87-11f1-a5b8-00155d580e1a https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=203524 https://apem-journal.org/Archives/2023/APEM18-4_486-500.pdf 0 4126cdec-0d87-11f1-a5b8-00155d580e1a https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=203525 Fakulteta za strojništvo Advances in production engineering & management 0 0 0