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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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The profitability of power plant investments depends strongly on uncertain fuel and carbon prices. In this doctoral thesis, we combine fundamental electricity market models with stochastic dynamic programming to evaluate power plant investments under uncertainty. The application of...
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We present solution methodologies for vehicle routing problems (VRPs) with stochastic demand, with a specific focus on the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demand (VRPSD) and the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demand and duration limits (VRPSDL). The VRPSD and the VRPSDL are...
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The Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University had its inception in 1998. For the last 10 years,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during...
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The applicability of learning and experience curves for predicting future costs of solar technologies is assessed, and … systems manufacture are discussed, and procedures for using learning and experience curves to predict costs are outlined … learning and aggregated cost curves for these surrogates estimated. If the surrogate learning curves apply, they can be used to …
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hope that this analysis will facilitate learning across states and help state fund managers develop more effective and more …
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This report presents recommendations relative to the use of expert systems and machine learning techniques by the … machine learning techniques were also reviewed. Two recommendations are given: (1) BLS should use the expert system shell … study to evaluate the potential of machine learning techniques to create and maintain the approximately 350 ELI …
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machine learning. So far, however, only little work has been done to quantify the efficiency of this tool for non … vector machines that use the pinball loss. Here, it turns out that we obtain learning rates which are optimal in a min …
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We describe the use of machine learning methods in the analysis of spatial soil fertility, soil physical …
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experience. In places with less developed organized wholesale market DR programs, utilities are learning how to create more …
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