Bargaining-Based Profit Allocation Model for Fixed Return Investment Water-Saving Management Contract

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Paper deals with important topics of mathematical analysis. The authors have proposed a bargaining-based Profit Allocation Model.   

However, I have a number of suggestions:   

1. Abstract should be extended by the obtained results in part of the performance evaluation of this approach. 
2. Abstract should be extended by the obtained results in step by step model, as for now, it's more general description without concretes, also I would suggest to mentioned about limitations as well. 

3. In the section Result authors should visualize data, to make it more understandable and mark the benefits of their method, moreover table 1, is too big, so I would suggest reducing it size and selecting a better way to make a comparison. 

3. Authors should clearly point-by-point describe the main contributions of this paper. It should somehow resonate with the title of the work.

4. Conclusion section should be extended by the obtained from the authors' results and future ideas for research, as well as describe limitations in a bit more detail.

5. A lot of references are outdated and unlinked. Please fix it by using 3-5 years old papers in high-impact journals

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Reviewer 2 Report

1. Introduction The function of the Introduction is to: Establish the context of the work being reported. This is accomplished by discussing the relevant primary research literature (with citations) and summarizing our current understanding of the problem you are investigating;

 -State the purpose of the work in the form of the hypothesis, question, or problem you investigated.

- Briefly explain your rationale and approach and, whenever possible, the possible outcomes your study can reveal.

-Please write a more complete Introduction following the above described, it is important to thoroughly review the literature and state of the art (please review recent papers and related work), and cite the most relevant related work.

2. The article needs a review of grammatical errors.

3. some parts of table 1 are not clear. please correct it.

Finally, this paper is recommended for publication in this journal after a minor revision according to all the above-suggested corrections.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Thanks for taking into account suggestions.