The size of wind turbine blades is expected to increase considerably in the future. Since the modern wind turbine blade is generally large-scale, faulty design production results in high expense. To achieve a desired wind turbine blade, a better understanding of the structural behavior on...

Conjoint choice experiments have become a powerful tool to explore individual preferences. The consistency of respondents' choices depends on the choice complexity. For example, it is easier to make a choice between two alternatives with few attributes than between five alternatives with several...

The concept of willingness-to-pay (WTP) has attracted the attention of marketeers because of its use-fulness in many applications. Nowadays one aims at describing the market heterogeneity by estimating the distribution of WTP. However, this poses several problems that have been discussed...

A traditional discrete choice model assumes that an individual's decision-making process is based on utility maximization and that the systematic part of the utility function depends on some observable attributes and covariates. These attributes and covariates however can only explain part of...