A particular ceiling on atmospheric CO2 concentrations can be maintained through a variety of emission pathways. Over the past decade, there has been considerable debate over the characteristics of a least-cost pathway. Some have suggested that a gradual departure from the emissions baseline...

This is a proposal for the application of discrete linear programming to the typical job shop scheduling problem -- one that involves both sequencing restrictions and also non-interference constraints for individual pieces of equipment. Thus far, no attempt has been made to establish the...

This paper is designed to show how a typical sequential probabilistic model may be formulated in linear programming terms. In contrast with Dantzig and Radner, the time horizon here is an infinite one. For another very closely related study, the reader is referred to a paper by R. Howard. The...

There is a broad consensus that the costs of abatement of global climate change can be reduced efficiently through the assignment of quota rights, and through international trade in these rights. But there is no consensus on whether the initial assignment of emission permits can affect the...