E-sports organizations with franchised networks: formalization of technological and economic development based on optimal operation and upgrade of the hardware

Abstract

The paper focuses on the priority given to the technological and economic development of e-sports organizations with franchised networks. Attention is paid to the specificity of the process of timely upgrading of e-sports hardware, which involves the upgrading and introduction of new, more sophisticated and advanced gaming and other devices, which determines the number of e-sports disciplines and available e-sports events for the е-sports arena. The success of franchising networks depends on the quantity of the c-sports hardware, which should be similar to the hardware used by the main arena in order to ensure the functionality of a well-structured state-of-the-art training process for e-sport athletes. The purpose of the study is to present a basis for the technological and economic development of e-sports organizations with a franchising network within the formalized system in terms of finding optimal solutions to the problem of hardware upgrades. The study presents a model of technological and economic development of all e-sports organizations with franchised networks as а content area, posing the rules of operation, regulating the process of hardware upgrades and focusing on the sustainability of development. Dynamic programming methods based on Bellman’s equations and the formalization of the problem of hardware replacement through graphic notations, cloud computing in the AnyLogic environment are used to identify and illustrate the features of such solutions.