has been so far used in service science rather intuitively. Our approach is based on utility functions and conceptual … (potential) utility for their clients. This description can be used especially to organize a service portfolio in an enterprise …

also make a connection to the expenditure function through Fenchel duality theory and derive a duality result from Lemaire …

A method of small-area estimation with a utility function is developed. The utility characterises a policy planned to … applied composite and empirical Bayes estimators are inefficient for a wide range of asymmetric utility functions. Adaptations …

Rebelo (2006) preferences that nest the KPR and GHH utility functions and span the entire range of income effect that exists …

expectation of an exponential utility function. The perfomance index is the risk-sensitive expected-total reward criterion, and …