diplomacy -- Energy diplomacy of the major countries in the world -- The energy diplomacy of international organizations -- The …

energy efficiency improvements -- Part 3: Markets -- 20. International oil market -- 21. Natural gas market -- 22. Coal …

Cooperation -- Chapter 9. World Chokepoint -- Chapter 10. Conclusion. … alliances, World Choke point and more. Se Hyun Ahn is Professor of the Department of International Relations and the Director of …

energy system optimization. Through personalized energy services provision and energy efficiency improvement, the book can …-driven methods in improving energy efficiency and supporting energy service innovation are presented. Moreover, this book also …

efficiency -- Part I -- Chapter 3: Shephard’s input and output distance functions: cost and revenue efficiency decompositions … -- Chapter 4: The generalized distance function (GDF): Profitability efficiency decomposition -- Part II -- Chapter 5: The …This book unifies and extends the definition and measurement of economic efficiency and its use as a real …

Bhattacharyya, Levent Kutlu, and Robin C. Sickles -- 14. Aggregation of individual efficiency measures and productivity indices … measurement of efficiency, productivity, growth and performance. These concepts are commonly measured residually and difficult to … quantify in practice. In real-life applications, efficiency and productivity estimates are often quite sensitive to the models …

-- Chapter 3. Efficiency Driven Socio-Technical System Design -- Chapter 4. A Framework for the Assessment and Consolidation of …The volume examines the state-of-the-art of productivity and efficiency analysis. It brings together a selection of the … best papers from the 10th North American Productivity Workshop. By analyzing world-wide perspectives on challenges that …

with graphical illustrations and real-world applications in industry, are provided for a better understanding. The models … introduced here can be easily used in both theoretical and real-world evaluations. This book is intended for graduate and PhD …

Chapter 1. Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model … -- Chapter 14. Quantile DEA: Estimating qDEA-alpha Efficiency Estimates with Conventional Linear Programming. … efficiency analysis. It showcases a selection of the best papers from the 9th North American Productivity Workshop. These papers …