Designing product lines with substitutable components and subassemblies permits companies to offer a broader variety of products while continuing to exploit economies of scale in production and inventory costs. Past research on models incorporating component substitutions focuses on the benefits...

The recorded transactions of venture capital investments permit a direct examination of the Braudel hypothesis that regional markets evolve dynamically and interdependently in reference to a global system. This hypothesis contradicts the popular belief that regional financial development is...

Linear weighing is a common approach to handle multiple criteria and the "knapsack" is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem. A knapsack problem with two linearly weighted, objective criteria is considered in this paper. For better support, it is important to provide the decision maker...