Country: Netherlands

Found 18376 papers in total
Scheduling trainees at a hospital department using a branch-and-price approach
2006,
Scheduling trainees (graduate students) is a complicated problem that has to be solved...
Load balancing and capacity constraints in a hierarchical location model
2006,
Recent work on the location of perinatal facilities in the municipality of Rio de...
Analytic hierarchy process to assess occupational risk for shoulder and neck pain
2007,
Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a decision making algorithm developed by Saaty....
Modeling country risk ratings using partial orders
2006,
In order to evaluate the creditworthiness of various countries, a learning model is...
A taxing problem: The complementary use of hard and soft OR in the public sector
2006,
A review of the UK personal taxation system used a combination of hard and soft OR...
Using MACBETH to determine utilities of governments to parties in coalition formation
2006,
In the paper, we present an application of the MACBETH approach to a certain model of...
A financial alliance compromise between executives and supervisory authorities
2006,
In this paper, we are looking for the best financial alliance compromise structure...
Finding the most preferred alliance structure between banks and insurance companies
2006,
In this paper we have studied alternative alliances between banks and insurance...
A simulation study of IT outsourcing in the credit card business
2006,
The use of Monte Carlo simulation for evaluation of financial risk of an information...
Portfolio rebalancing model with transaction costs based on fuzzy decision theory
2006,
The fuzzy set is one of the powerful tools used to describe an uncertain environment....
A robust nonparametric approach to evaluate and explain the performance of mutual funds
2006,
The topic of the measurement of mutual funds' performance is receiving an increasing...
Portfolio performance evaluation in a mean–variance–skewness framework
2006,
Astronomical amounts of money are being invested in financial markets. Consequently...
Bayesian kernel based classification for financial distress detection
2006,
Corporate credit granting is a key commercial activity of financial institutions...
Financial networks with intermediation: Risk management with variable weights
2006,
In this paper, we develop a framework for the modeling, analysis, and computation of...
Multicriterion aerodynamic shape design optimization and inverse problems using control theory and Nash games
2007,
Multicriterion design is gaining importance in aeronautics in order to cope with new...
Modelling and optimisation of electricity, steam and district heating production for a local Swedish utility
2006,
District heating may help reduce environmental impact and energy costs, but policy...
A computational study of local search algorithms for Italian high-school timetabling
2007,
In this paper we report on a computational experience with a local search algorithm...
A Bayesian causal map for inflation analysis: The case of Turkey
2006,
This paper proposes the use of Bayesian Causal Maps (BCMs) to analyze the complex...
Quality improvement and goodwill accumulation in a dynamic duopoly
2006,
This paper analyzes optimal advertising and quality improvement decisions by duopolist...
Impact of the cost of the time resource on efficiency of economic processes
2006,
The objective of the paper is to simulate behavior of economic agents with a special...
Capital accumulation under technological progress and learning: A vintage capital approach
2006,
In standard capital accumulation models all capital goods are equally productive and...
A multi-attribute e-auction mechanism for procurement: Theoretical foundations
2006,
We describe a multi-attribute e-auction mechanism, with a focus on its theoretical...
A genetic algorithm for the two-dimensional strip packing problem with rectangular pieces
2006,
Given a set of rectangular pieces and a container of fixed width and variable length,...
Strip generation algorithms for constrained two-dimensional two-staged cutting problems
2006,
The constrained two-dimensional cutting (C_TDC) problem consists of determining a...
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