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Soto, Juan P.; Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002

Aware of the importance of developing new alternatives to improve the performance of the companies, our purpose in this paper is to develop a medium term production planning model that deals with the concepts of Partnership and Reverse Logistics. Our model takes advantage of the synergies of...

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On heuristic and linear models of judgment: Mapping the demand for knowledge

Hogarth, Robin; Karelaia, Natalia - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006

has emphasized the dysfunctional aspects of judgmental heuristics, and yet, other findings suggest that these can be … methodology developed to specify the effectiveness of heuristics in different environments and allows direct comparisons between … tasks. Our results highlight the trade-off between linear models and heuristics. Whereas the former are cognitively …

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Locating emergency services with different priorities: The priority queuing covering location problem

Silva, Francisco; Serra, Daniel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008

Previous covering models for emergency service consider all the calls to be of the same importance and impose the same waiting time constraints independently of the service's priority. This type of constraint is clearly inappropriate in many contexts. For example, in urban medical emergency...

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On ignoring scientific evidence: The bumpy road to enlightenment

Hogarth, Robin - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006

It is well accepted that people resist evidence that contradicts their beliefs. Moreover, despite their training, many scientists reject results that are inconsistent with their theories. This phenomenon is discussed in relation to the field of judgment and decision making by describing four...

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