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Applications of Decision Analysis to Health Care

Hagtvedt, Reidar - 2007

This dissertation deals with three problems in health care. In the first, we consider the incentives to change prices and capital levels at hospitals, using optimal control under the assumption that private payers charge higher prices if patients consume more hospital services. The main results...

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Multiattribute Utility Theory without Expected Utility Foundations

Stiggelbout, A.M.; Wakker - 1995

Methods for determining the form of utilities are needed for the implementation of utility theory in specific decisions. An important step forward was achieved when utility theorists characterized useful parametric families of utilities, and simplifying decompositions of multiattribute...

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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding

Sauer, Johannes - 2011

. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …

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Management betrieblicher Risiken bei produzierenden Unternehmen

König, Roland - 2008

the complete risk management process. An Example from a mechanical engineering company is used for the final validation of …

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Produktion unter Risiko : ein agentenbasiertes, sektorales Partialmodell zur Anwendung in der Nachhaltigkeitsforschung

Meißner, Frank - 2007

-Walrasian disequilibrium approach and describe optimizing agents. These agents use chance constraints which depict a Cash Flow at Risk approach …

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Dynamic and Robust Capacitated Facility Location in Time Varying Demand Environments

Uster, Halit (contributor) - 2009

This dissertation studies models for locating facilities in time varying demandenvironments. We describe the characteristics of the time varying demand that motivatethe analysis of our location models in terms of total demand and the changein value and location of the demand of each customer....

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Joint optimization of location and inventory decisions for improving supply chain cost performance

Cetinkaya, Sila (contributor); Uster, Halit (contributor) - 2007

This dissertation is focused on investigating the integration of inventory and facilitylocation decisions in different supply chain settings. Facility location and inventorydecisions are interdependent due to the economies of scale that are inherent in transportationand replenishment costs. The...

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Net Neutrality and Investment Incentives

Choi, Jay Pil; Kim, Byung-Cheol - Michigan State University; Georgia Institute of Technology - 2008

This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation oninvestment incentives for Internet service providers (ISPs) and contentproviders (CPs), and their implications for social welfare. We show thatthe ISP s decision on the introduction of discrimination across contentdepends on a...

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Performance improvements through flexible workforce

Kirkizlar, Huseyin Eser - 2008

This thesis focuses on increasing the efficiency of systems with cross-trained workforce and finite storage spaces. Our objective is to maximize the throughput and minimize the setup costs (if they exist). More specifically, we are interested in determining effective cross-training strategies...

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Using queuing theory to reduce the number of abandoned calls at a central service desk

Pretorius, Philip D; Madisa, Victoira G; Kroeze, Jan H - 2010

This paper addresses the problem of an unacceptably high rate of abandoned calls at a centralisedservice desk of a South African telecommunications company. It uses a queuing methodology todesign a system that may achieve the desired performance level. A quality standard is created bydetermining...

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