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Commissioned Paper: Capacity Management, Investment, and Hedging: Review and Recent Developments
Mieghem, Jan A. Van - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 5 (2003) 4, pp. 269-302
This paper reviews the literature on strategic capacity management concerned with determining the sizes, types, and … timing of capacity investments and adjustments under uncertainty. Specific attention is given to recent developments to … incorporate multiple decision makers, multiple capacity types, hedging, and risk aversion. Capacity is a measure of processing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009218546
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In What Situations Do High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes Perform Better Than General Purpose Lanes
Dahlgren, Joy - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 2001
maximum delay, the number of lanes and the capacity per lane, the proportion of HOVs, and the average occupancy of HOVs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130955
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AN ANALYSIS OF WILLINGNESS TO PARTICIPATE IN WILDERNESS OR OTHER PRIMITIVE AREAS
Adhikari, Murali; Bergstrom, John C.; Houston, Jack E.; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2003
A logit model was used to determine the major factors explaining willingness to participate of an individual in the wilderness or other primitive area visits. The results of the study showed that education and environmental awareness were in wilderness participation decision. Demographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005327181
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Linking Socio-Economic and Policy Variables to Technical Efficiency of Traditional Agricultural Production: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria
Ajibefun, Igbekele A. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
The major objective of this study was to analyze and link the level of technical efficiency of Nigerian small-scale farmers to specific farmers' socio-economic and policy variables. Data were collected on 461 food crop farmers selected from five states of Southwestern Nigeria. The selection of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005060640
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Packing chained items in aligned bins with applications to container transshipment and project scheduling
Briskorn, Dirk; Fliedner, Malte - In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 75 (2012) 3, pp. 305-326
constraint among items. The problem stems from an application of container handling in rail freight terminals, but is also of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950175
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Packing chained items in aligned bins with applications to container transshipment and project scheduling
Briskorn, Dirk; Fliedner, Malte - In: Computational Statistics 75 (2012) 3, pp. 305-326
constraint among items. The problem stems from an application of container handling in rail freight terminals, but is also of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010759383
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Study of Rural Transportation Issues
Casavant, Kenneth L.; Denicoff, Marina R.; Jessup, Eric; … - Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture - 2010
The PDF is very large (29MB). To download one chapter at a time, go to http://dx.doi.org/10.9752/TS041.04-2010.
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Seriously Ceres ?
Kroon, Rutger; Vis, Iris F.A. - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2005
terminal capacity. The port of Amsterdam identified this threat and realised a brand new container terminal, the Ceres Paragon … container port competition among the ports in the Le Havre-Hamburg range is fierce as they are threatened by a shortage of … planning a take-over that could make or break the future of the Ceres Paragon Terminal. The objective of this paper is to study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150507
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A Multiagent Platform for Developments of Accounting Intelligent Applications
LUPASC, Adrian - In: Economics and Applied Informatics (2008), pp. 79-86
AOP – Agent Oriented Programming – is a new software paradigm that brings many concepts from the artificial intelligence. This paper provides a short overview of the JADE software platform and the principal’s components constituting its distributed architecture. Furthermore, it describes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008692224
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Marine Transport by Container – Moisture and Condensation Damage
Gheorghe, Surugiu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 2, pp. 108-111
Marine transport by container is the most economical and safe way of shipping for almost any kind of cargo. But putting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010675630