The minimum spillage sequencing problem, which arises in real-time satellite signal data processing, requires a set of numbers to be arranged so as to minimize the "overflow" of the partial sums above an upper bound. We subject several heuristics to worst-case analysis, average-case analysis,...

We formulate and evaluate the Automated Simulation Analysis Procedure (ASAP), an algorithm for steady-state simulation output analysis based on the method of nonover-lapping batch means (NOBM). ASAP delivers a confidence interval for an expected response that is centered on the sample mean of a...

This paper provides a unified development of the method of control variates for simulation experiments in which the objective is estimation of a multiresponse metamodel---that is, a linear model for an output vector of simulation performance measures expressed in terms of an input vector of...

This paper describes the need to develop the innovative and competitive abilities of the CAE (Autonomous Community of the Basque Country) by increasing the efficiency of interactions among different economic agents. This case gives details of the set interactions in the different ways of...

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Fisheries managers and advisors in developing countries face challenges that may be difficult to overcome, because they use doctrines, principles and models of management and economics that do not adequately explain the problems that need to be solved. This may perpetuate non-sustainable...

The mix of contemporary innovation policies impacting on a given territory are typically characterised by quite different underlying rationales and instruments. Complexity is further increased by multi-level considerations. Thus policies with different characteristics and from different...