Uncertainties inherent in the airport traffic may lead to the unavailability of gates for accommodating scheduled flights. Incorporating random disruptions is crucial in constructing effective flight-gate assignments. We consider the gate assignment problem under uncertainty in flight arrival...

Economic measures of income have ignored large areas of human well-being and are poor measures of well-being in the areas to which they attend. Despite increased recognition of those distortions, ‘GNP per capita continues to be regarded as the quintessential indicator of a country’s living...

This paper deals with three questions: (1) What are ‘subjective’ measures? (2) What is ‘well-being’? and (3) Are subjective measures of well-being of use for policymaking, in particular in developing nations? The first question is answered by making a distinction between two kinds of...

A Strategy map is a visual interpretation of business´ tasks and the successive steps needed to accomplish these goals. This article is dealing with the fact that the use of the Strategy map is usually connected only with a big company. The aim is to show that small companies could use this...

Distributed Generation based on Photovoltaic (PV-DG) injected in the power system is considered a highly promising solution due to the advantage of clean energy use. However, the investigation of the optimal PV-DG allocation (site and size) is a significant task for power system requirements and...