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Optimal selection of concrete anchors for connection cost reduction
Olsen, Jake; Lee, Zu-Hsu; Pong, Wenshen - In: Construction Management and Economics 25 (2007) 4, pp. 423-434
A proprietary product such as a post-installed concrete anchor has a unique place in the engineering community that includes product design, manufacturing, testing, evaluation and design for expected service conditions. An economic model in a non-linear integer programming form is proposed for...
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Optimal structural design of residential cogeneration systems in consideration of their operating restrictions
Wakui, Tetsuya; Yokoyama, Ryohei - In: Energy 64 (2014) C, pp. 719-733
peripheral devices are an electric water heater and an air-cooled heat exchanger. The optimization results reveal that the …
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A FUZZY MULTI-OBJECTIVE BILEVEL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
GAO, YA; ZHANG, GUANGQUAN; LU, JIE - In: International Journal of Information Technology & … 08 (2009) 01, pp. 93-108
In a bilevel decision problem, both the leader and the follower may have multiple objectives, and the coefficients involved in these objective functions or constraints may be described by some uncertain values. To express such a situation, a fuzzy multi-objective bilevel (FMOBL) programming...
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A two-stage stochastic programming approach to employee scheduling in retail outlets with uncertain demand
Parisio, Alessandra; Neil Jones, Colin - In: Omega 53 (2015) C, pp. 97-103
fluctuating demand are taken into account to develop a stochastic operational optimization of staffing levels. Mathematically, the …
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Simulation-based optimization of an agent-based simulation
Deckert, Andreas; Klein, Robert - In: Netnomics 15 (2014) 1, pp. 33-56
Optimization of an agent-based simulation (ABS) bears specific challenges. It is demonstrated in this paper that … mainstream simulation-based optimization (SBO) approaches often do not perform well in such a setting, sometimes hardly … neglected so far, but should structurally also be universally applicable for other simulation-based optimization problems as …
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Sustainability Issues in Water Management
Harmancioglu, Nilgun; Barbaros, Filiz; Cetinkaya, Cem - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 6, pp. 1867-1891
studies are needed to test the usefulness of selected criteria by using computer-based interactive optimization and simulation … (Sustainable Management of Scarce Resources in the Coastal Zone) and OPTIMA (Optimization for Sustainable Water Resources …
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Computer-Based Decision Support for Railroad Transportation Systems: an Investment Case Study
DUTA, Luminita; BITULEANU, Adrian; FILIP, Florin Gheorghe; … - In: Informatica Economica 13 (2009) 2, pp. 103-109
In the last decade the development of the economical and social life increased the complexity of transportation systems. In this context, the role of Decision Support Systems (DSS) became more and more important. The paper presents the characteristics, necessity, and usage of DSS in...
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Smart TV business regulation and collaboration among business operators and regulators: Focus on the case analysis of Smart TV blocking and IPTV regulation process in Korea
Kim, Yaeeun; Chang, Younghoon; Park, Myeong-cheol - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
dispute participants will be better off altogether under a reasonable regulation and collaboration. …
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Collaboration decisions on disruption recovery service in urban public tram systems
Zeng, Amy Z.; Durach, Christian F.; Fang, Yan - In: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and … 48 (2012) 3, pp. 578-590
This research focuses on the decisions on recovery services to deal with short-term disruptions in public tram systems. The disruption recovery approach used in Munich, Germany – the best service acclaimed by the public, is adopted as the basis to examine whether to collaborate with a taxi...
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An Examination into the Disclosure, Structure, and Contents of Ethical Codes in Publicly Listed Acquiring Firms
Bodolica, Virginia; Spraggon, Martin - In: Journal of Business Ethics 126 (2015) 3, pp. 459-472
Due to the prevalent influence of legal trends in driving ethical homogenization and persistent decoupling between ethical substance and symbolism in today’s organizations, scholars are calling for a renewed interest in the structural makeup of ethical codes. This article explores the...
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