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Accounting for Additional Heterogeneity: A Theoretic Extension of an Extant Economic Model
Barney, Bradley John 1980- - 2007
The assumption in economics of a representative agent is often made. However, it is a very rigid assumption. Hall and Jones (2004b) presented an economic model that essentially provided for a representative agent for each age group in determining the group's health level function. Our work seeks...
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Whole life cost methods for computer systems
Bradley, Malcolm - 1998
This thesis provides an analysis of cost of ownership issues and techniques, andprovides the supporting data to enable future system designers to make rationaldecisions on design options. It represents the experience gained whilst collectingcost and cost relationship data in the Rolls-Royce...
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Risk-resilient heuristics and genetic algorithms for security-assured grid job scheduling
Song, SS; Hwang, K; Kwok, YK - 2006
In scheduling a large number of user jobs for parallel execution on an open-resource grid system, the jobs are subject to system failures or delays caused by infected hardware, software vulnerability, and distrusted security policy. This paper models the risk and insecure conditions in grid job...
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Ein genetischer Algorithmus zur kostenorientierten Losgr??en- und Reihenfolgebestimmung bei getakteten Mehrproduktflie?linien
Reidel, Sonja - 2006
In vorliegender Arbeit wird das Problem der kostenorientierten Losgr??en- und Reihenfolgebestimmung bei getakteter Mehrproduktflie?linienfertigung untersucht. Das Problem kann als Teilproblem der Produktionsablaufplanung f?r den Fall der Serien- oder Sortenproduktion charakterisiert werden....
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Ex-vessel Pricing and IFQs: A Strategic Approach
Fell, Harrison - 2010
In this article, intraseasonal fishing is modeled as a differential game between fishers in a total allowable catch (TAC)–regulated fishery with and without individual fishing quotas (IFQs). Heterogeneous harvest values are included by incorporating time-specific harvest costs and a...
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A TRADE NETWORK GAME WITH ENDOGENOUS PARTNER SELECTION
Tesfatsion, Leigh - 1995
This paper develops a Trade Network Game (TNG) that combines evolutionary game play with endogenous partner selection. Resource-constrained buyers and sellers choose and refuse trade partners on the basis of continually updated expected payoffs. Partner selection takes place in accordance with a...
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Product warranty logistics: Issues and challenges
Murthy, D. N. P.; Solem, O.; Roren, T. - 2004
Warranty is an important element of marketing new products. The servicing of warranty results in additional costs to the manufacturer. Warranty logistics deals with various issues relating to the servicing of warranty. Proper management of warranty logistics is needed not only to reduce the...
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A Taxonomy of electricity demand forecasting techniques and a selection strategy
Maniatis, Paraschos - 2017
In this research, a taxonomy of known electricity demand forecasting techniques is presented based on extensive empirical studies. In addition, a decision strategy for selecting an electricity demand forecasting method has been presented. The strategy has been formulated based on an eight-factor...
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A Bootstrap-Regression Procedure to Capture Unit Specific Effects in Data Envelopment Analysis
Desli, Evangelia; Ray, Subhash - 2004
The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) efficiency score obtained for an individual firm is a point estimate without any … resampling directly from the pooled DEA scores, we first regress these scores on a set of explanatory variables not included at … the DEA stage and bootstrap the residuals from this regression. These pseudo-efficiency scores incorporate the systematic …
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Evaluating Customer Service Representative Staff Allocation and Meeting Customer Satisfaction Benchmarks: DEA Bank Branch Analysis
Min, Elizabeth Jeeyoung - 2011
Customer Service Representative resource allocation efficiency of a major Canadian bank’s model. Two DEA models are proposed … broken down into branch size segments and geographical regions for analysis. A comparison is conducted between the DEA model … results and the Bank’s performance ratios and benchmarks, validating the use of the proposed DEA models for resource …
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