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Exact Measures of Income in Two Capital-Resource-Time Economies
Pezzey, John C.V - 2001
Exact optimal paths are calculated for two closed, continuous-time economies with explicit functional forms for utility from consumption, and for production from human-made capital and a non-renewable resource. Features of the first economy are non-linear utility, hyperbolic utility discounting...
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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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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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Operations Research Methods Applied to Workflow in a Medical Records Department
Edna Chan, S.-Y.; Ohlmann, Jeff; Dunbar, Steven; … - 2002
Transcribing medical documents accurately into pre-defined formats and within certain time frames is vital for administrative and medical purposes in any hospital. This paper describes quantitative models incorporating available data to represent transcription activities of a medical records...
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Optimizing Restaurant Reservation Scheduling
Feldman, Jacob - 2010
We consider a yield-management approach to determine whether a restaurant should accept or reject a pending reservation request. This approach was examined by Bossert (2009), where the decision for each request is evaluated by an approximate dynamic program (ADP) that bases its decision on a...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429642
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The Effect of Cross-Training and Scheduling in an Inbound Call Center Using Simulation
Racz, Melanie Beth - 2004
highest average speed of answer. This result is an indication that carefully planned scheduling, along with strong schedule …
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Filter Scheduling Function Model In Internet Server: Resource Configuration, Performance Evaluation And Optimal Scheduling
Xu, Minghua - 2010
ABSTRACTFILTER SCHEDULING FUNCTION MODEL IN INTERNET SERVER:RESOURCE CONFIGURATION, PERFORMANCE EVALUATION ANDOPTIMAL …, searching, publishing and media streaming,being timing sensitive and/or financially critical. The scheduling policy in Internet … arrival processand scheduling function. For the second factor, it is known from this thesis that convexscheduling function …
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CPIM Research Project : the effects of APICS certification on hiring and promotional decisions
Schwarz, Roger - 2007
Poster with text describing research conducted by Roger Schwarz advised by Terry Wells and Abe Nahm.
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