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Found 17295 papers in total
Multiple criteria decision making methods in strategic planning of forestry on state-owned lands in Finland: Applications and experiences
2001,
The forests in Finland have been under intensive planning for decades. Currently,...
A variation-based method for product family design
2002,
Product family design entails all of the challenges of product design while adding the...
Optimal sequence of landfills in solid waste management
2001,
Given that landfills are depletable and replaceable resources, the right approach,...
Inverse design techniques for improving composite prosthetic devices
2002,
The design and performance of composite prosthetic devices can be improved by...
Effective product family design using physical programming
2002,
In response to today's highly competitive global marketplace, many companies are...
A technique to achieve maximal manufacturing yield in engineering design
2002,
Techniques to maximize manufacturing yield of an engineering design for mass...
Optimal selection of the most reliable product with degradation data
2002,
At the research and development stage of a product, it is a great challenge for the...
An evaluation of multi-criteria methods in integrated assessment of climate policy
2001,
Those who conduct integrated assessments (IAs) are aware of the need to explicitly...
An optimization model for guiding the petrochemical industry development in Saudi Arabia
2002,
A mixed integer linear programming model is formulated for determining the optimum...
Assessing risky public investments with MUSTARD
2001,
This paper presents a practical implementation of multicriteria methodologies based on...
Environmental effects of tourism industry investments: An inter-temporal trade-off
2002,
Efficient investment programmes in touristic infrastructure have to take into...
Optimal route network design for transit systems using genetic algorithms
2002,
The paper proposes a technique for the development of ‘optimal’ transit...
Forecasting Hong Kong's container throughput: An error-correction model
2002,
A three-player oligopoly model is devised to capture the competitive interaction...
Parameter identification of autonomous vehicles using multi-objective optimization
2002,
In order to properly operate an autonomous vehicle navigation system, it is important...
Statistical analyses of freeway traffic flows
2002,
This paper concerns the exploration of statistical models for the analysis of...
Groundwater cleanup: The optimization perspective (a literature review)
2002,
Contamination of groundwater resources is becoming a serious environmental problem....
Stochastic evolution of innovation diffusion in heterogeneous groups: Study of life cycle patterns
2001,
A theoretical framework has been proposed to study patterns of innovation diffusion in...
Unconstrained minimization approaches to control determination of a spreadable system
2002,
The optimization of processes described by non-linear distributed parameter systems is...
An enhanced transcribing scheme for the numerical solution of a class of optimal control problems
2002,
An enhanced scheme of transcribing the system dynamics for the numerical solution of...
Time-subminimal trajectory planning for discrete non-linear systems
2002,
While several time-optimal trajectory planning techniques have been developed for...
Local stability in endogenous growth models
2001,
The local stability of balanced paths in endogenous growth models is investigated....
Near optimization of stochastic dynamic systems by decomposition and aggregation
2001,
The paper is concerned with the reduction of a class of stochastic optimal control...
State and output feedback design for robust tracking of linear systems with rate limited actuators
2002,
A design technique recently proposed for stabilization of a linear system with...
Multicriteria modelling for a repair contract problem based on utility and the ELECTRE I method
2002,
Each alternative for a repair contract implies a specific response time and related...
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