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Analysis of Linear Programs By Sequential Projection
We apply what we call sequential projection to reformulate a block triangular linear program as a recursive optimization problem. We approximate the return function at each stage of the recursion by using either inner or outer linearization, and…
A Bayesian Approach to the Production of Information and Learning By Doing
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Behavioral Accounting Research: Pathologies, Paradigms and Prescriptions
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Capital Market Equilibrium with Marketability Restrictions
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A Class of Methods for Linear Programming
A class of methods is presented for solving standard linear programing problems. Like the simplex method, these methods move from one feasible solution to another at each iteration, improving the objective function as they go. Each such…
A Consumer Preference Approach to the Planning of Rural Primary Health Care Facilities
The problem of planning for the expansion of a rural primary health care delivery system is conceptualized as determining the set of facilities to be added to an existing system so as to maximize the incremental benefit to the community subject…
Cost Operator Algorithms for the Transportation Problem
A primal transportation algorithm is devised via post-optimization on the costs of a modified problem. The procedure involves altering the costs corresponding to the basic cells of the initial (primal feasible) solution so that it is dual…
Design and Implementation of Decision Support Systems: Some Implications of a Recent Study
This paper is an evaluation and critique of the Decision Support System (DSS) design and implementation methodology proposed by Gerrity (1970, 1971). A recent study (Stabell, 1974) of a system for portfolio management which was produced using…
Dynamic Correction in Marketing Planning Models
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Estimating Computational Effort for Linear Programming Algorithms
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Estimation Using General Convex or Concave Functions
The estimation of an inner-linearized approximation to a general convex or concave function with n independent variables is formulated as a concave programming problem. An algorithmic procedure, based on relaxation, which generates constraints as…
Existence of Futures Markets, Noisy Rational Expectations and Informational Externalities
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Extrapolations for Iterative Methods of Solving M-Matrix Equations
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A Forecasting Model for Hotel Occupancy Rates
Although in 1973 the average nationwide occupancy rate for hotels and motels was 61%, this rate fluctuates widely based on the time of year and the specific hotel or motel. The purpose of this paper is to present a short range forecasting…
A Framework for Analyzing the Ethics of Social Interventions
Investigators and practitioners of human behavior change must be more concerned with the ethical ramifications of their work. The recently changed HFM guidelines for the protection of human subjects highlight the necessity for the development…
Heuristic Scheduling and Priority Implementation Procedures for a Dynamic Job Shop Model
The problem considered is the scheduling of a job shop with job due dates, intermittent job arrivals, and statistical processing times. Centralized scheduling uses a sequence of static problems for generating priorities at review times. The…
Marketability Restrictions and Valuation of Capital Assets Under Uncertainty
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Markov Decision Problems II: Summarized Utility, Memorless Strategies, Stationarity
The analysis of Markov decision problems with expected utility criteria, initiated on Kreps (1975b), is continued. Analogues of the standard dynamic programming concepts of memoryless strategies and stationarity are provided. The key notion is…
Markov Decision Problems with Expected Utility Criteria, I: Basic Notions and Essentially Positive, Essentially Negative and Convergent Utility
A discrete time, finite state and action Markov decision problem is considered where the objective is the maximization of the expectation of an arbitrary utility function defined on the sequence of rewards. Basic concepts are formulated,…