Invasive pests cross property boundaries. Property managers may have private incentives to control invasive species despite not having sufficient incentive to fully internalize the external costs of their role in spreading the invasion. Each property manager has a right to future use of his own...

We present the AQUARS (A QUAsi-multistart Response Surface) framework for finding the global minimum of a computationally expensive black-box function subject to bound constraints. In a traditional multistart approach, the local search method is blind to the trajectories of the previous local...

A new retail facility is to locate and its service quality is to determine where similar facilities of competitors offering the same goods are already present. The market share captured by each facility depends on its distance to customers and its quality, which is described by a probabilistic...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to provide useful approximations for the computation of g‐renewal function, since no closed form solution of such a function is available Design/methodology/approach – One of the methods uses a simple identity to obtain an approximation. The second...

This paper presents a dynamic model of criminal choice in which an offender's probability of arrest depends on his level of criminal activity as well as the actions of the criminal justice system. In addition, current choices affect future outcomes through a stock accumulation process. We...

In this paper, a new algorithm for RBF centers initialization for functional approximation problems is proposed. The design of the algorithm is inspired in previous clustering algorithms but adding some features to adapt the algorithm to the characteristics of our problem. We compare the results...