Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Environmental Policies in the Power Sector -- Chapter 3. Features of Power Sectors -- Chapter 4. Analysis of Power System Operations with Non-Dominant Firms -- Chapter 5. Analysis of Power System Operations with a Dominant Firm and an Oligopolistic Industry...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Value of the Firm and its Securities -- Chapter 3. Borrowing Constraints, Debt Dynamics and Investment Decisions -- Chapter 4. Imperfect Competition, Working Capital and Tobin’s Q -- Chapter 5. Continuous Time Models, Unsecured Debt and Commitment --...

This book deals with the economic modelling of water at the global, national and sub-national levels. It presents a multi-faceted analysis and, while it outlines the theories behind various models, its main purpose is to analyse policy issues and present insights arising from modelling,...

Chapter 1. Data and theory: tortoise and hare or leap-frogging? -- Chapter 2. Theoretical advances on interregional migration models -- Chapter 3. Determinants and Consequences of International Migration -- Chapter 4. State of the art and future challenges of interregional migration empirical...

Modeling Reverse Logistics Network for Post-Sale Service Under International Ecosystem -- Sustainable Parallel Machine Scheduling: Trade-Off Between Tardiness And Energy Consumption -- Modeling A Coordinated Supply Chain Under Service Level Constraint With Price-Sensitive Stochastic Demand And...

Fair Assignment of Debt Cases to Legal Debt Collection Centers -- On the Principle of Lagrange in Optimization Theory and Its Application in Transportation and Location Problems -- Measuring Foreign Trade-Logistics Efficiency: A DEA Approach and the Malmquist Index -- Partially Non-discretionary...

Introduction: Motivation and Research Setting -- Foundations: Conceptual Background -- Study 1: Supporting Participants in Creative Processes with Persuasive Technology -- Study 2: Categorizing Persuasive Technology for Participatory Design -- Study 3: Modelling and Creating Persuasive...

Part I: Applying Particle Swarm Optimization to Portfolio Optimization -- 1. Utility: Theories and Models -- 2. Portfolio Optimization -- 3. Behavioral Portfolio Theory -- 4. A Comparative Study on PSO with Other Metaheuristic Methods -- 5. Mathematical Model of Particle Swarm Optimization:...

Chapter 1: Behavioral Operations and Behavioral Operational Research: Similarities and Differences in Competences and Capabilities -- Chapter 2: Behavioural Implications of Demand Perception in Inventory Management -- Chapter 3: Behavioral Operational Research in Portfolio Selection -- Chapter...

This book provides an essential introduction to Stochastic Programming, especially intended for graduate students. The book begins by exploring a linear programming problem with random parameters, representing a decision problem under uncertainty. Several models for this problem are presented,...