In evaluating new product opportunities through the use of a rating scheme, account must be taken of the fact that the individual factors on which the product is being assessed interact in producing an overall result. A score for a product may be thought of as a point in n dimensional space in...

Rapid technological developments and deregulation of the telecommunications industry have changed the way in which content providers distribute and price their goods and services. Instead of selling a bundle of content and access through proprietary networks, these firms are shifting their...

The optimal coupon schedule for municipal bonds with limits on the number of distinct coupons is formulated in terms of two different dynamic programming models which, in contrast to the companion paper, do guarantee an optimal solution, although at the cost of additional computational difficulty.