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Valuation of Power Generation Investments in Deregulated Capacity Markets
(2009-02-23)
Electricity is a very unique product that has yet to become efficiently storable, and it is uniform in its nature independent of what technology is being used to produce it. This factor makes the valuation of a power ...
The Development and Representation of Occupant Performance in Building Evacuation Modeling
(2009-02-23)
Occupant characteristics are considered important features incorporated into most evacuation models. The relative scarcity of evacuation experiments in the literature, contributes to some extent to the continuous challenge ...
Real Options Evaluation of Financial Investment in Flexible Manufacturing Systems in the Automotive Industry
(2008-09-09)
Applying financial option pricing theory to real world investment evaluation practice, real option analysis is quickly emerging as a new approach to economic evaluation and selection of strategic investment alternatives ...
Group versus Staggered Replacement Policy-Strategic Replacement Decisons
(2008-09-09)
Replacement decisions are critical in most businesses, because assets are subject to deterioration or obsolescence with usage and time. In addition, technological improvement affects the replacement cycle of assets. In our ...
Comparing the Overlapping of Two Independent Confidence Intervals with a Single Confidence Interval for Two Normal Population Parameters
(2009-02-23)
Two overlapping confidence intervals have been used in many sources in the past 30 years to conduct statistical inferences about two normal population means. Several authors have examined the shortcomings of Overlap ...
Supply chain planning for hurricane response with information updates
(2009-02-23)
Planning inventories of supplies for the hurricane season can be
challenging. For instance, in 2004, manufacturing and retail firms
experienced stock outs because they were not prepared for responding
to the demand ...
Retail Spatial Design with a Racetrack Aisle Network Considering Revenue and Adjacencies
(2009-02-23)
In this dissertation, a novel model for the retail store design problem is proposed. The new approach consists of placing departments in a racetrack configuration within the store subject to area and shape constraints. ...
Overmolded Substrate on Aluminum Metal Backing for Harsh Environment Applications
(2008-09-09)
Demand for high-temperature electronics in the automotive industry increases daily with the increasing number of electronics going into under-the-hood locations. Along with keeping costs low and reliability high while the ...
Electric Power Bidding Models for Competitive Markets
(2009-02-23)
Profit maximization for power companies is highly related to the bidding strategies used. In order to sell electricity at high prices and maximize profit, power companies need suitable bidding models that consider power ...