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Optimal Pricing and Capacity Planning in Operations Management

Tong, Dehui - 2011

Pricing and capacity allocation are two important decisions that a service provider needs to make to maximize service quality and profit. This thesis attempts to address the pricing and capacity planning problems in operations management from the following three aspects.We first study a capacity...

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Branch and Price Solution Approach for Order Acceptance and Capacity Planning in Make-to-Order Operations

Mestry, Siddharth D; Centeno, Martha A; Faria, Jose A; … - 2010

The increasing emphasis on mass customization, shortened product lifecycles, synchronized supply chains, when coupled with advances in information system, is driving most firms towards make-to-order (MTO) operations. Increasing global competition, lower profit margins, and higher customer...

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Industrielle Ökologie : theoretische Annäherung an ein Konzept nachhaltiger Produktionsweisen

Bauer, Joa - 2008

) entwickelten Konzepte der Industriellen Symbiosen, Eco-Industrial Parks, Zero-Emission, Kreislaufwirtschaft, produkt … energy, recycling, symbioses and diversity of regional approaches. In this context, the following theoretical instruments are …

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Abfall- und Kreislaufwirtschaftlicher Transformationsprozess in Deutschland und in China : Analyse - Vergleich - Übertragbarkeit

Läpple, Fang - 2007

transferiert werden. Durch die Analyse der historischen Entwicklung der Abfall- und Kreislaufwirtschaft und des Abfallgesetzes … Kreislaufwirtschaft werden die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen China und Deutschland herausgefunden. Das starke … Kreislaufwirtschaft gefördert. Die Kreislaufwirtschaft entspricht dem Konzept der Nachhaltigen Entwicklung der UN-Umweltkonferenz von Rio …

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Portfolio optimization with risk constraints

Gandy, Ralf - 2005

In dieser Arbeit setzen wir uns mit den Auswirkungen von Risikobeschränkungen auf das optimale Verhalten eines Investors auseinander, welcher versucht, den erwarteten Endnutzen zu einem festgelegten Zeitpunkt zu maximieren. Dazu kann er ein vorgegebenes Anfangsvermögen in einem Markt...

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Treasury Management Model with Foreign Exchange Exposure

Volosov, K; Mitra, G; Spagnolo, F; Lucas, C A - 2005

In this paper we formulate a model for foreign exchange exposure management and (international) cash management taking into consideration random fluctuations of exchange rates. A vector error correction model (VECM) is used to predict the random behaviour of the forward as well as spot rates...

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Dynamic Asset (and Liability) Management under Market and Credit Risk

Jobst, N J; Mitra, G; Zenios, S A - 2003

We introduce a modelling paradigm which integrates credit risk and marketrisk in describing the random dynamical behaviour of the underlying fixed income assets.We then consider an asset and liability management (ALM) problem and develop a mul-tistage stochastic programming model which focuses...

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Crop decision planning under yield and price uncertainties

Kantanantha, Nantachai - 2007

This research focuses on developing a crop decision planning model to help farmers make decisions for an upcoming crop year. The decisions consist of which crops to plant, the amount of land to allocate to each crop, when to grow, when to harvest, and when to sell. The objective is to maximize...

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Assessing the Farm Level Impacts of Yield and Revenue Insurance: an Expected Value-Variance Approach

Berg, Ernst - 2002

This paper investigates the farm level impacts of multiple peril yield and revenue insurance in an expected value-variance framework. The analysis is conducted using stochastic simulation jointly with numerical optimisation. Simulation is used to compute the means and variances of revenues as...

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UNCERTAIN YIELDS IN SECTORAL WELFARE ANALYSIS: AN APPLICATION TO GLOBAL WARMING

Lambert, David K.; McCarl, Bruce A.; He, Q.; Kaylen, … - 1995

Agriculture operates in an uncertain environment. Yields, prices, and resource usage can change dramatically from year to year. However, most analyses of the agricultural sector, at least those using mathematical programming methods, assume decision making is based on average yields, ignoring...

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