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Analysts' Forecast Accuracy in Germany: The Effect of Different Accounting Principles and Changes of Accounting Principles

Ernstberger, Jürgen; Krotter, Simon; Stadler, Christian - 2008

This paper assesses the influence of an adoption of IAS/IFRS or US GAAP on the financial analysts’ forecast accuracy in a homogenous institutional framework. Our findings suggest that the forecast accuracy is higher for estimates based on IFRS or US GAAP data than for forecasts based on German...

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Resource aggregation issues and effects in mixed model assembly

Burdett, Robert L.; Kozan, Erhan - 2003

sequencing and scheduling decisions may be performed more efficiently. Resource aggregation can potentially and significantly … machine scheduling environment and for any combination of distinct and indistinct resources. A number of alternative measures …

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Sequencing and scheduling in flowshops with task redistribution

Burdett, Robert L.; Kozan, Erhan - 2001

scheduling. From an extensive numerical investigation, the benefits achieved by the application of this methodology are detailed. …

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Inducing Optimal Scheduling with Selfish Users

Enders, Paul; Gandhi, Anshul; Gupta, Varun; Debo, Laurens; … - 2008

It is well known that scheduling jobs according to the Shortest-Remaining-Processing-Time (SRPT) policy is optimal for … minimizing mean response time in a single-server system with online arrivals. Unfortunately, SRPT scheduling requires users to … approach for inducing the informed users into self- scheduling themselves according to (an approximation of) SRPT while not …

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Cost Estimating Certifications Offered by Professional Societies in the United States and Abroad

Remer, Donald S.; Ahle, Karen; Alley, Kevin; Silny, John; … - 2007

Many projects in industry and government go over budget and schedule. In most engineering economics courses, the emphasis is on how to compare alternatives and learn about time value of money and interest and inflation rates. The students are usually given the costs and asked to compare the...

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A cell-based simultaneous route and departure time choice model with elastic demand

Szeto, WY; Lo, HK - 2004

This paper develops a cell-based formulation for the simultaneous route and departure time choice problem with elastic demands through a variational inequality problem (VIP). This formulation follows the ideal Dynamic User Optimal (DUO) route and departure time choice principle and encapsulates...

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Can Flexibility Be Constraining?

Pinker, E; Lee, HH; Berman, O - 2010

Five Common Options For Workforce Flexibility And Their Robustness Under Uncertain Demand Are Investigated. In The First Stage, A Firm Makes Optimal Staffing Decisions According To Estimated Demand And A Given Workforce Flexibility Policy. In The Second Stage, It Reallocates Its Workforce To...

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Competitive algorithms for due date scheduling

Bansal, N; Chan, HL; Pruhs, K - 2009

We consider several online scheduling problems that arise when customers request make-to-order products from a company …

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Scheduling with limited available processors and limited preemptions

Braun, Oliver - 2002

Classical scheduling models build up many practical problems but there arequestions that occur during practice which …. On the other hand, many classical scheduling models allow an arbitrarynumber of task preemptions. In practical …

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Three Essays on Resource Allocation: Load Balancing on Highly Variable Service Time Networks, Managing Default Risk via Subsidies and Supplier Diversification, and Optimal Hotel Ro...

Caudillo Fuentes, Luz Adriana E. - 2010

The first essay considers a service center with two stations in accordance with independent Poisson processes. Service times at either station follow the same general distribution, are independent of each other and are independent of the arrival process. The system is charged station-dependent...

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