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Optimal experimental design for combinatorial problems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-08)
We discuss two experimental designs and show how to use them to evaluate difficult empirical combinatorial problems. We restrict our analysis here to the knapsack problem but comment more generally on the use of computational ...
A Modeling Approach to Maintenance Decisions Using Statistical Quality Control and Optimization
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005-06)
Maintenance concerns impact systems in every industry and effective maintenance policies are important tools. We present a methodology for maintenance decision making for deteriorating systems under conditions of uncertainty ...
Thermal effects in styrene-butadiene rubber at high hydrostatic pressures
(Elsevier, 1986-12)
The temperature changes as a result of rapid hydrostatic pressure applications are reported for unvulcanized styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) in the reference temperature range from 292 to 405 K and in the pressure range ...
The Value and Challenges of Using Learning Technologies to Support Students in Learning Science
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-12)
What do we learn from the price of crude oil futures?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-06)
Despite their widespread use as predictors of the spot price of oil, oil futures prices tend to be less accurate in the mean-squared prediction error sense than no-change forecasts. This result is driven by the variability ...
Goodness-of-fit in optimizing models
(Elsevier, 1990)
Conventional econometric tests of optimizing models typically involve embedding the optimizing model in a parametric specification and then examining the parametric restrictions imposed by the optimization hypothesis. The ...
New techniques for the study of stochastic equilibrium processes
(Elsevier, 1982-01)
This paper develops the notion of transition correspondences; the set-valued analog of transition probabilities. A generalization of the Feller property for transition probabilities is shown to imply the existence of a ...
Scheduling operations on parallel machine tools
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-05)
We introduce unique scheduling problems that arise for multiple spindle machine tools. The ability of these machines to perform simultaneous operations on more than one part creates constraints that are not found in the ...
Morality and the limits of societal values in health care allocation
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002-04)
In this paper, we consider whether there is a clear moral justification for the proposal that societal value preferences (SVPs) should be included in Cost Effectiveness Analyses (CEA) of health care resource allocations. ...
Fatigue craze initiation in polycarbonate: study by transmission electron microscopy
(Elsevier, 1994-08)
Fatigue craze initiation in bulk, amorphous polycarbonate (PC) is investigated by means of transmission electron microscopy. The results agree very well with small angle X-ray scattering measurements of the same set of ...