The determination of optimal software release times constitutes an interesting decision making problem which involves the stochastic structure of the underlying software reliability model, as well as various cost parameters. There is an apparent tradeoff between testing the software further to...

Controlling the order of inference is an important issue for knowledge-based systems in economics and management. Separate from this issue, there is a recent spur on user modeling. In this paper, we establish the connection between these two issues. We investigate the need for flexible control...

One of the main problems in economic planning is to determine the amount of resources that should be allocated with the aim of reaching some specified goals. To this aim, we attack this problem by explicitly considering development programs over a finite time horizon. We therefore, formulate a...

This paper reviews commonly used numerical methods of solving two-point boundary value problems which frequently arise in economics. Since these problems are often too complex to solve analytically, and since phase diagrams yield limited insights, these numerical methods are a useful addition to...

An effective description can be produced of subjective human judgments through stratification and quantification of human thinking processes in light of the analytic hierarchy process, which is a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis in systems engineering and an approach of great...

In applied econometrics, the researcher typically has two recourses for conducting inference: assuming normal errors or relying on asymptotic theory. In economic models, the assumption of normal errors is rarely justified and, for moderate sample sizes, the applicability of a central limit...