The operating rules of water allocation in the alpine OFIMA hydropower network of the Maggia River basin (Canton Tessin, Switzerland) are investigated in response to changes in the production policy and environmental and climatic factors. The study was carried out by means of a nonlinear...

We extend the two similar interior-point approaches to sensitivity analysis originally developed for linear programs to those for convex quadratic programs, where the first approach is the ∊-sensitivity analysis and the other is Yildirim and Todd's. We study the relationship between the bounds...

This paper reviews various optimization approaches used to address a variety of issues related to risk in agricultural finance and farm management. The central focus is in the Markowitz mean‐variance model, which represents the classical approach to balancing risk and returns in an...

An ongoing stream in financial analysis proposes mean-semivariance in place of mean-variance as an alternative approach to portfolio selection, since segments of investors are more averse to returns below the mean value than to deviations above and below the mean value. Accordingly, this paper...

This paper reviews various optimization approaches used to address a variety of issues related to risk in agricultural finance and farm management. The central focus is in the Markowitz mean-variance model, which represents the classical approach to balancing risk and returns in an optimization...

The safe dissemination of statistical tabular data is one of the main concerns of National Statistical Institutes (NSIs). Although each cell of the tables is made up of the aggregated information of several individuals, the statistical confidentiality can be violated. NSIs must guarantee that no...