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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Engineering Economics"”.
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Restructuring a railroad engineering economics model : responding to management needs
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1989.
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The impact of software design structure on product maintenance costs and measurement of economic benefits of product redesign
… paper reviews the current state of the art in engineering economics of the maintenance phase of software lifecycle. Secondly, a measure of software product complexity suitable to assess maintainability of a software system is developed. This measure is used to analyze the design structure …
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Hedging Rule for Reservoir Operation: How Much, When and How Long to Hedge
… principles and methods form hydrology, engineering, economics and operation research. The research addresses fundamental questions of hedging such as when, how much and how long to hedge through both theoretical analysis and numerical modeling. These questions are related to the timing, …
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Waveform relaxation methods for the simulation of systems of differential algebraic equations with applications to electric power systems
… in the fields of mechanical and chemical engineering, economics, and physics. The main contribution of this thesis is to define and prove conditions under which the waveform relaxation algorithm for a general system of DAEs will converge. The algorithm is then tailored for the simulation …
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Distributed Supervised Statistical Learning
… large scale datasets analysis, including engineering, economics, and finance. In distributed learning, one key question is, for example, how to efficiently aggregate multiple estimators that are obtained based on data subsets stored on multiple computers. We investigate recent studies on …
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PROMOTING DISTRIBUTED ENERGY DEPLOYMENT AND DIFFUSION FOR SUSTAINABLE CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE USING MULTI-AGENT BASED MODELING AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYTICS
… approach that combines infrastructure engineering, electric power engineering, economics, social science, machine learning, and computer modeling. The findings should benefit researchers, power system operators, and policy makers towards a sustainable DSG diffusion"-- Abstract, p. iv</p>
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Perspectives on the satellite services industry : analysis of challenges and opportunities in the market, policy and regulatory environments
… focuses on Space Communications and combines engineering, economics, market, and policy analyses to identify challenges and opportunities in the industry that are beyond the scope of any one isolated discipline. This work is divided in two parts. The first part begins by discussing the …
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Confirmatory research of Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis for the 1945-2017 era
The field of Engineering Economics often involves the application of economic principles to analyze and formulate decisions regarding the economic viability of the technical solution. These decisions often rely on the knowledge of future economic conditions to evaluate risk and establish the …
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Global Supply Chain and Competitive Business Strategies: A Case Study of Blood Sugar Monitoring Industry
… and concepts from diverse disciplines including Engineering, Economics and Business Administration to consequently establish a strategic decision making framework. The factors influencing the short term and long term standing of companies in a particular market are focused with the objectives of …
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A Preliminary Analysis of how a Software Organization’s Maturity and Size Affect its Intellectual Property Portfolio
… articles. Ten articles from Software Engineering, Economics, and Law were all reviewed. This was necessary because this research lies at the intersection of all three of these disciplines. The results were tabulated and analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Our initial …
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Investigating the feasibility and logistics of decentralized urine treatment for resource recovery
… scenario were then evaluated through standard engineering economics and potential greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Ideal treatment sequence It was deduced that the most promising treatment sequence for maximum resource recovery, based on nutrient recovery rates and operating conditions, …
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A Real Option Strategic Scorecard Decision Framework For It Project Selection
The problem of project selection is of significant importance in management of information systems. Almost $2 trillion is spent worldwide every year on IT projects, with over $600 billion spent in the US alone. Traditionally, managers have being using the classical net present value (NPV) method in …
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Independence of Banco de México
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994, and Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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The dynamics of growth and economic analysis of nuclear power generating industries based on plutonium converter and breeder reactors
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering; and, (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1966.
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A systems and cost analysis of human rated Mars entry, descent, and landing vehicles
"Cost is one of the biggest obstacles to sending humans to Mars. However, spacecraft costs are typically not taken into consideration until after the preliminary vehicle and mission concepts have been designed. Once costs have been estimated, managers and project teams often lack confidence that …