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Sales force deployment by genetic concepts
Sprecher, Arno - 1999
Sales force management decisions belong to the major issues considered in marketing research. Among others, the alignment of sales territories has been one of the main field of work for years. Recent results have reported a strong impact of the alignment of sales territories on profit, and,...
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Sind die Preise für Wasserdienstleistungen der Ver- und Entsorgung in Deutschland wirklich kostendeckend?
Gawel, Erik - 2012
Art. 9 der europäischen Wasserrahmenrichtlinie trägt den Mitgliedsstaaten auf, bis 2010 die nationalen Anforderungen an die Entgelte für Wasserdienstleistungen am Prinzip der Kosten-deckung einschließlich Umwelt- und Ressourcenkosten auszurichten, um effiziente Anreize für die Nutzung...
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The Impact of Institutional Frameworks on Private Sector Participation in Water Supply and Sanitation: The case of the management contract for water and wastewater services in the...
Steiner, Sylvia M. - 2008
This research examines the impact of institutional frameworks on the performance of a private sector participation (PSP) arrangement in the water sector. The research takes place within the context of a development debate and practice, which identifies water as a key poverty issue in a...
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Nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft durch Synergie - mögliche Kooperationen bei der Wasserver- und Entsorgung: Eine theoretische und empirische Untersuchung der Wasserversorgungsunternehm...
Ludin, Daniela; Rahmeyer, Fritz; Wörner, Daniela - 2001
Hintergrund einer nachhaltigen Wasserwirtschaft den Verbrauchern finanzielle Anreize bieten, Wasser zu sparen. Das innerhalb der …, um mehr Effizienz und Effektivität im Sinne einer nachhaltigen Wasserwirtschaft zu erreichen. Die Kooperation erfolgt … dabei freiwillig zwischen den agierenden Einheiten in der Wasserwirtschaft und zwar unabhängig von deren Größe oder …
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Solving multi-objective team orienteering problem with time windows using adjustment iterated local search
Hapsari, Indri; Surjandari, Isti; Komarudin, K. - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering International 15 (2019) 4, pp. 679-693
One of the problems tourism faces is how to make itineraries more effective and efficient. This research has solved the routing problem with the objective of maximizing the score and minimizing the time needed for the tourist's itinerary. Maximizing the score means collecting a maximum of...
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Adaptive control schemes for parameterized heuristic scheduling
Schirmer, Armin - 1998
heuristics do better. In priority rule-based scheduling, attempts to remedy this have been made by combining simple priority …
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DSGE-Modelling: when agents are imperfectly informed
De Grauwe, Paul - 2008
individuals use simple rules of thumb (heuristics) to forecast the future inflation and output gap. We compare this model with the …
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Consumer preferences for water supply? An application of choice models to urban India
Anand, P. B. - 2001
This paper examines consumer preferences for the attributes of alternative sources of water supply in Chennai, based on a household survey where respondents were given the description of a set of options. Their decision to choose one of the options is examined using discrete choice models....
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A new model for the alignment of almost balanced sales territories
Skiera, Bernd; Jordan, Carsten - 1996
The sales territory alignment problem deals with the question of how to align a number of sales coverage units (usually zip-codes or political districts) to sales territories. These sales territories are usually aligned in a way that they are almost balanced relative to one or several attributes...
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Simulated annealing algorithm for the robust spanning tree problem
Nikulin, Yury - 2005
This paper addresses the robust spanning tree problem with interval data, i.e. the case of classical minimum spanning tree problem when edge weights are not fixed but take their values from some intervals associated with edges. The problem consists in finding a spanning tree that minimizes...
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