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The methods developed for pricing interest rate options can be classified into two broad categories: (i) modeling the interest rate by modeling the factors that cause interest rate changes and (ii) modeling directly the probability density of the interest rate. Modeling directly the density of...
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Projects are commonly over budget and behind schedule, to some extent because uncertainties are not accounted for in cost and schedule estimates. Research and practice is now addressing this problem, often by using Monte Carlo methods to simulate the effect of variances in work package costs and...
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Probabilistic Risk Assessment is being increasingly used in a number of industries such as nuclear, aerospace, chemical process, to name a few. Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) characterizes risk in terms of three questions: (1) What can go wrong? (2) How likely is it? (3) What are the...
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Providing a defensible basis for allocating resources for critical infrastructure and key resource protection is an important and challenging problem. Investments can be made in countermeasures that improve the security and hardness of a potential target exposed to a security hazard, deterrence...
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Adopting advanced information technologies within the present broad application fields requires precise security. However, security problems regarding information privacy have occurred frequently over the last 5 years despite the contribution of these technologies. To respond to the need for...
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The purpose of the project is to develop a method to calculate the optimal number of newspapers to deliver to each of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s 7500 sales outlets on each day of the week. The optimization model takes into account sales and advertising revenues,printing costs,...
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Magistriniame darbe nagrinėti ir susisteminti Lietuvos ir užsienio autorių finansinės analizės teoriniai bei praktiniai tyrimai, taip pat aprašytas ir pateiktas finansinės būklės optimizavimo modelis. Analizuojant įmonės veiklą būtina tinkamai parinkti finansinės analizės metodus,...
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should be used for engineering drawings, should the company use metric units, what tolerance scheme should be used, and how …
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Electricity markets in the United States presently employ an auction mechanism to determine the dispatch of power generation units. In this market design, generators submit bid prices to a regulation agency for review, and the regulator conducts an auction selection in such a way that satisfies...
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As sensor networks are being increasingly deployed in decision-making infrastructures such as battlefield monitoring systems and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems, making decision makers aware of the trustworthiness of the collected data is a crucial. To address this...
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