A new basis for an international poverty measurement is proposed based on linear programming for specifying the least cost diet and explicit budgeting for non-food spending. This approach is superior to the World Bank’s '$-a-day' line because it is (1) clearly related to survival and well...

Part 1: Lessons -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio—A primer -- Chapter 3: Setting up a model -- Chapter 4: Data structures and related OPL language elements -- Chapter 5: Introduction to IBM ILOG Script -- Chapter 6: Modeling with tuples -- Chapter 7:...

Global farmland biodiversity has declined rapidly in recent decades due to the homogenization of agricultural landscapes, including an increase in field sizes and decrease in woody features, such as hedgerows. Restructuring landscapes by (re)introducing woody features and decreasing field sizes...

As the energy market has grown in importance in recent decades, researchers have paid increasing attention to swing option contracts. Early studies evaluated the swing contract as if it were a financial derivative contract, by ignoring its storage constraints. Aided by recent advances in...