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The subject of the paper is the investigation of possible improvements to the process of eyeglass lenses production. The research area concerns the application of modern IT tools to the enhancement of production results, in the context of digitalization of the economy, including industry. The...

We motivate the formulation of market equilibria as a mixed complementarity problem (MCP) in order to bridge the gap between bottom-up energy system models and top-down general equilibrium models for energy policy analysis. Our objective is primarily pedagogic. We first lay out that the MCP...

Im Biosphärenreservat 'Biosphäre Bliesgau' wurde im Jahr 2014 ein Partizipationsprozess zur Erstellung des Rahmenkonzeptes über die zukünftige Ausgestaltung des Biosphärenreservates durchgeführt. Vor diesem Hintergrund legt der hier vorliegende Beitrag zunächst dar, wie Partizipation...

Background: Limited financial, human and material health resources coupled with increasing demand for new-born care services require efficiency in health systems to maximize the available sources for improved health outcomes. Making Every Baby Count Initiative (MEBCI) implemented by local and...

In a recent discussion about efficient ways to combine multiple firm characteristics into a multifactor portfolio, a distinction was made between the bottom-up and top-down approach. Both approaches integrate characteristics with equal weights and ignore interaction effects from differences in...