cost-to-go functions
Varieties of Cost Functions.
... cost functions. To this end, we change the recognising object of cost functions from stabilisation monoid [9] to a structure with better algebraic properties, called stabilisation ...
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Neural Networks for Approximating the Cost and Production Functions
... More precisely, for each observation, the four greater (in absolute value) eigenvalues were negative. Also, the lower eigenvalues for each observation have generally a much greater absolute value than its most positive ...
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Modelling of cost-functions under risk and uncertainty
... Long-run cost functions modelling is based on the premise that fi xed costs don’t exist in long time ...long-run cost function, the target variable is defi ned as average ...long-run cost ...
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Long run Cost Functions for Electricity Transmission
... a cost function for transmission ...exist cost characterizations for the transmission grid as a set of line capacities, but, in our view, such capacities are definitely not the transmission ...of ...
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Optimizing cost-efficiency in mean exposure assessment - cost functions reconsidered
... non-linear cost functions in other areas of data collection, and additional examples appear in Groves ...cited cost-efficiency studies do not, in general, con- sider whether the identified optimal ...
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Licensing under general demand and cost functions
... In spite of its richness, the existing literature has been restrictive in regard to one important aspect of production: return to scale. The vast majority of the papers in the literature assume that firms operate under ...
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On the use of multi step cost functions for generating forecasts
... the cost function used to estimate model parameters. Conventional cost functions assume that the postulated model is an accurate reflection of underlying demand, which is not the case for the ...
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Energy-Efficient Network Routing with Discrete Cost Functions
... Closely related to our paper is the work of Andrews et al. [2]. The authors studied a new kind of minimum-cost network design with (dis)economic of scale and presented a polylogarithmic approximation algorithm to ...
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Study of cost functions in three term backpropagation for classification problems
... The need to improve Three Term BP is foreseen, where if a better cost function is applied in the Three Term it could perform better. This is due to the successfulness of researches that claims Two Term BP ...
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Establishing Cost of Manufacturing Parameters for Cylindrical Features with Geometric Tolerances
... Abstract: Cost of manufacturing is an essential factor for estimating cost of a product and establishing optimum manufacturing ...influence cost of manufacturing is tolerance. Traditionally, ...
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Actual Cost Of Reliability Improvement in Optimal Reliability Design Derived From an Analytical Cost Function
... on cost and other system characteristics such as weight or volume, or cost in minimised subject to constraints on system or component reliabilities (Twum and Aspinwall, ...and cost (Kuo and Prasad, ...
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Programmable Hash Functions go Private:Constructions and Applications to (Homomorphic) Signatures with Shorter Public Keys
... linear functions over vector spaces [12,24,3,14,18,19,22,4,16,5,35] and have nice applications to network coding and proofs of ...the cost of storing such large public key can be, in principle, amortized ...
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Selfish traffic allocation for server farms
... Roughgarden and Tardos [29] also consider integral allocations. They give an example of a network in which a bicriteria price of anarchy is unbounded. (This is in contrast to the fractional flow, where the identically ...
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SIP routing methodologies in 3GPP
... Figure 3 depicts an overview of the routing scheme that is proposed for the VSON in this paper. The components are numbered and the description begins with the results and explains the steps that are necessary. Domain ...
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Quasi Dynamic Green’s Functions for Efficient Full Wave Integral Formulations for Microstrip Interconnects
... stant, and keep on using the Green’s functions (GFs) for homogeneous media. An example of definition of effec- tive permittivity is given in [6]. The second approach is the use of the GFs for inhomogeneous media, ...
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Dynamics of innovation and efficiency in banking system: An application of SFA and meta frontier method
... annual cost frontier functions but their technology gap ratios (TGR) are relatively low ...meta-frontier cost function which depends on how efficiently they adjust to the most efficient technology ...
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A CRITICAL LITERATURE REVIEW ON IMPROVING PROJECT COST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE AND PROFITABILITY OF DOMESTIC CONTRACTORS
... Construction cost management is the most important function for project success, and the construction project performance is generally expressed in terms of cost and its variance from the ...project ...
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An evaluation of the direct costs of abatement under the main desulphurisation technologies
... total cost of a power plant. The cost of FGD per tonne of sulphur abated will vary between $629 per tonne and ...operating cost for all these FGD units would range from $610-720 /metric tonne of ...
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Where NGOs go and do not go?
... production cost. Unit production cost will be low in a village with better opportunities for productive activities, such as modern irrigation facilities or better soil quality of agricultural ...production ...
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Analysis of Cost Components in Hospital Cost Units, to Choose Component of Cost which will be Decreased
... The health system has been specifically developed that allows people to use the health services needed but protects them from the financial consequences of the cost of care [3]. This goal is now widely known as ...
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