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A Modelling Study of a Taxi Service Operation

Deng, C.C.; Ong, H.L.; Ang, B.W.; Goh, T.N. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 12 (1992) 11, pp. 65-78

modelling study of a taxi service operation in a Singapore public transport company, with the results adaptable for other …

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A multi‐criteria data envelopment analysis model for measuring the productive efficiency of hospitals

Al‐Shammari, Minwir - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 19 (1999) 9, pp. 879-891

This paper seeks to measure and evaluate the productive efficiency of health‐care organizations (hospitals) using a multicriteria Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology. DEA is a special linear programming model for deriving the comparative efficiency of multiple‐input multiple‐output...

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Backhauling in forest transportation - models, methods and practical usage

Carlsson, Dick; Rönnqvist, Mikael - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2006

Transportation planning in forestry is divided into strategic, tactical and operational depending on the length of the planning horizon. We consider a tactical problem of finding efficient backhauling routes. Given a set of supply and demand points the backhauling problem is to identify a set of...

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By-production of electricity and particulates : efficiency of Indian thermal power plants revisited

Sengupta, Debarun; Mukherjee, Deep - In: International journal of energy sector management 16 (2022) 2, pp. 265-283

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Modelling the Cost of Irrigator Response to Lower River Murray Salinity

Chambers, Adam; Connor, Jeff; King, Darran - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

This paper reports on an analysis of irrigator water demand and profit changes across varying annual water availability, crop water requirements, and river salinity conditions for irrigation along the South Australian portion of the Lower Murray. The paper also investigates the validity of the...

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The Estimation of Food Demand Elasticities in Canada

Pomboza, Ruth; Mbaga, Msafiri Daudi - Agriculture Canada, Government of Canada - 2007

Changing consumer and market demands is an important driver behind the challenges and opportunities that are facing the agriculture and agri-food sector in Canada and that will influence the sector's profitability and competitiveness in the future. It is therefore important to understand...

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Modelling Climate Change and Agricultural Production in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): In Quest of Statistics

Koffi-Tessio, Egnonto M. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Climate change is a natural and dynamic phenomenon resulting from complex interrelationships between physical, environmental and human factors. The sustainability of life on earth depends partly on the ability of mankind to maintain this natural and balanced flow of such gases such as carbon...

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Water use implications of bioenergy cropping systems in Eastern England

Glithero, N. J.; Wilson, P.; Ramsden, S. J. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014

Food and fuel security in the face of population growth and climate change represent key societal challenges. Extending an arable farm-level bio-economic optimisation model ‘MEETA’ to include dedicated energy crops (DECs) and water metrics, we quantify water use implications and trade-offs...

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Commitment-Based Business Process Modelling and Enactment

Wan, Feng - 2005

coordination. However, difficulties arise when modelling long-lived business transactions involving information updates and … modelling that formulates business processes as multiagent systems. Organizational structure and its effect on interactions are … commitment semantics into business modelling and enables agent collaboration for business process enactment. We derive commitment …

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Assessment and modelling of urban road networks using Integrated Graph of Natural Road Network (a GIS-based approach)

Ahmadzai, Farhad; Rao, K. M. Lakshmana; Ulfat, Shahzada - In: Journal of Urban Management 8 (2019) 1, pp. 109-125

major steps; 1) Data preparation 2) Modelling/Generation of IGNRN, and; 3) Measuring three classes of centrality, namely …

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