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Evolution of national heritage inventories for Scotland and Wales
McKeague, Peter; Thomas, David - In: Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable … 6 (2016) 2, pp. 113-127
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a review of the origins and development of national inventories in … dissemination is considered. Design/methodology/approach – Exploring the evolution of historic environment inventories in Scotland … flexibility of information is highlighted. Findings – Inventories may combine locational, descriptive and visual material to help …
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On data-driven systems and system-driven data
Van Daele, Koen; Meganck, Leen; Mortier, Sophie - In: Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable … 6 (2016) 2, pp. 153-165
Purpose – Over the past 20 years, heritage inventories in Flanders (Belgium) have evolved from printed books to digital … inventories. The purpose of this paper is to look at this evolution and highlight the interaction between the system and its users …. Design/methodology/approach – After a short introduction about the history of inventories in Flanders, this paper mainly …
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Heritage inventories: promoting effectiveness as a vital tool for sustainable heritage management
Myers, David - In: Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable … 6 (2016) 2, pp. 102-112
experience with the establishment of heritage surveys and inventories at national and citywide scales in the Middle East and … international professionals involved with heritage inventories. Findings – Heritage inventories are permanent, ongoing records that …, and systems on an ongoing basis. Inventories are fundamentally different than heritage surveys, or other data collection …
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The Arches heritage inventory and management system: a platform for the heritage field
Myers, David; Dalgity, Alison; Avramides, Ioannis - In: Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable … 6 (2016) 2, pp. 213-224
of practitioners working with heritage inventories. Arches is a modern software platform purpose-built for the creation … and management of inventories to support effective heritage place management. The system was developed as open source … a marginal investment by organizations compared to building digital inventories from scratch. The Arches project has …
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Endogene Rücknahmepolitik in einem dualen Entsorgungssystem / An Endogenously Determined Repurchase of Scrap in a Dual Waste Disposal System
Clausen, Hartmut; Wacker, Holger - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 217 (1998) 3, pp. 292-307
zur Theorie natürlicher Ressourcen herausgearbeitet.  … stages at the time being. Economic theory has just begun to analyze this thematic complex. The paper is con cerned with … questions of allocative efficiency within a framework of a dual waste disposal system. Applying optimal control theory it is …
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On the Use of Projection Methods in the Computation of OLG Models / Zur Berechnung von OLG-Modellen mit Hilfe von Projektionsmethoden
Heer, Burkhard; Trede, Mark - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 220 (2000) 1, pp. 32-47
Summary We compare projection methods with the standard value function grid algorithm in order to solve overlapping generations models. We apply the methods to a particular 60-period OLG model with elastic labor supply in order to study the effects of unfunded public pensions on aggregate...
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Using Inter-Block Synchronization to Improve the Knapsack Problem on GPUs
Sun, Xue; Wu, Chao-Chin; Chen, Liang-Rui; Lin, Jian-You - In: International Journal of Grid and High Performance … 10 (2018) 4, pp. 83-98
This article describes how as one of the hot parallel processors, the general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPU) has been widely adopted to accelerate various time-consuming algorithms. Dynamic programming (DP) optimization is a popular method to solve a particular class of complex problems....
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Intertemporal Stable Pension Funding
Miao, Jerry C.Y.; Wang, Jennifer L. - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance 1 (2006) 2
This paper proposes a discrete dynamic programming model to maintain pension contribution in a stable level. By assuming an intertemporal stable contribution rate, we derive an algorithm to calculate the optimal contribution that requires less exogenous information and produces more stable...
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Dynamic appointment scheduling with patient preferences and choices
Wang, Jin; Fung, Richard Y.K. - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 115 (2015) 4, pp. 700-717
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to maximize the expected revenue of the outpatient department considering patient preferences and choices. Design/methodology/approach – Patient preference refers to the preferred physician and time slot that patients hold before asking for...
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Machine scheduling with outsourcing
Liu, Feng; Wang, Jian-Jun; Chen, Haozhe; Yang, De-Li - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 25 (2014) 1, pp. 133-159
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the use of outsourcing as a mechanism to cope with supply chain uncertainty, more specifically, how to deal with sudden arrival of higher priority jobs that require immediate processing, in an in-house manufacturer's facility from the perspective...
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