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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"risk allocation"”.
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Risk allocation for temporal risk assessment
… composed into temporal plans, then, there is a risk of not meeting the plan requirements. Currently, we do not have quantitatively precise methods for assessing temporal risk of a plan. Existing methods that deal with temporal uncertainty either forgo probabilistic models or try to optimize a …
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Rethinking Operator-Contractor Risk Allocation in a post-Macondo Era
The risks associated with people, property and the environment during drilling operations drive operators and contractors to use contracting practices such as mutual indemnity agreements to allocate risks. The management of these physical exposures is without regard to negligence, and most times, …
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UNDERSTANDING THE RISK ALLOCATION FOR THE TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS USING ALTERNATIVE CONTRACTING METHODS
… ACM projects hinges on an organization's adept risk management practices, with risk allocation serving as a pivotal element for achieving excellence, given the severe consequences of failure. It is evident that limited research has been conducted on this subject, often confined to specific …
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Risk management in capital project delivery : a value study of changing trends in contractual risk allocation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Risk Allocation, Decision Rights, and Adaptive Lifecycle Project Management Practices in Public-Private Partnership Highway Contracts in Australia, the Philippines, and India
… infrastructure where private finance is put at risk throughout the contract's duration. By bundling these key tasks in the hands of the private sector, PPPs are expected to address certain limitations of traditional delivery approaches by capitalizing on private sector expertise and …
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Risk transfer in operational public private partnerships in the education sector
Despite risk transfer being deemed a key driver in attaining value for money in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), plus the substantial resources already committed to PPPs globally, prior studies have tended to focus on PPP procurement, projects in their early stages or on the accounting treatment …
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The allocation of risks in the Saudi Arabian domestic and regional aviation construction projects.
… that inevitably cause them to become exposed to risks. In Saudi Arabia, the sector of aviation is considered an important sector owing to the fact that, on an annual basis, it is recognised as the first destination for Muslims. However, it has been found that projects continue to be delivered …
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How Contractual Risk Allocation Provisions of Oil and Gas Contracts Have Been or May Be interpreted by an English Court – A Case Study of Some Model Offshore Drilling Rig Contracts Developed in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States of America
… the parties to oil and gas contracts to allocate risks arising from the activities which form the subject matter of their respective contracts inter se. The study utilises petroleum industry standard form offshore drilling contracts in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States of America as …
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Robust, goal-directed plan execution with bounded risk
… of failure is within a user-specified risk bound. This thesis presents two robust mode-based executives: probabilistic Sulu or p-Sulu, and distributed probabilistic Sulu or dp-Sulu. The objective for p-Sulu and dp-Sulu is to allow users to command continuous, stochastic multi-agent …
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Improving Public-Private Partnership Contracts through Risk Characterization, Contract Mechanisms, and Flexibility
… engaged in more project tasks and accepts more risks. However, due to their long-term and complex nature, PPP contracts face many issues. Consequently, each project's contract becomes vital to project success because it: allocates risks, governs project relationships, and can align parties' …
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Evaluating and mitigating execution risk in Indian real estate development
… investment returns. Real estate development is a risky venture in even the most mature economies that possess transparent government regulations, reliable local and national legal systems, efficient capital markets, skilled labor markets and substantial market demand data. These issues are …
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An Examination of the Potential of the Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to Stimulate the Development of Geothermal Energy in Indonesia
… in the absence of clear and transparent risk-sharing mechanisms to incentivise the private sector that bears a higher share of the risk than in other infrastructure investments. Therefore, the aim of the thesis is to develop a framework based on principal-agency theorising to identify the …
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Analysis and Management of the Price Volatility in the Construction Industry
… to material and labor is a major source of risk and financial distress for all the participants in the construction industry. The overarching goal of this dissertation is to address this problem from both viewpoints of risk analysis and risk management. This dissertation offers three …
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Risk management and governance for PFI Project : technology policy lessons from the case of Japan
… which solves the problem of the ambiguous risk sharing. Because the definite risk allocation of the PFI makes it possible to produce the private sector's ingenuities, many successful projects have been implemented to achieve economical and efficient operations. Currently, the PFI projects …
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Risk-Bounded Dynamic Scheduling of Temporal Plans
… complete success. Instead, we aim to control the risk of scheduling failure, so we consider scheduling problems where activity durations are modeled with probability distributions. Then, by specifying a maximum allowable probability of failure, called a chance constraint, we gain access to …
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Multiple perspective of public-private partnership project success : the case of Kuwaiti public housing initiative
… The findings of this research identified risk allocation as the fifth CSF which contributed to the success of PPP housing sector projects. The findings in this regard confirmed that optimal risk allocation was one of the underlying reasons for implementing PPP projects.
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A ROMAN LAW PERSPECTIVE ON SUPERVENING EVENTS IN CHINESE CONTRACT LAW
… within the framework of the distinction between risk allocation and exemption from liability. This Roman law perspective serves as a lens for analyzing Chinese civil law, seeks to uncover the principium of today’s private law concepts and institutions. By drawing on primary sources in Chinese, …
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Safe and Efficient Motion Planning through Chance-Constrained Nonlinear Optimization
… we call Sequential Convex Optimization with Risk Allocation (SCORA). This planner is capable of solving challenging, high-dimensional motion planning problems while managing the risk due to uncertainty in the environment and in the robots own state. In addition, SCORA supports robots with …
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An Examination of Risk Perceptions and Allocation Preferences in Public-Private Partnerships in Nigeria
Risk perceptions and allocation preferences are important elements of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP); as the fundamental tension in any negotiation between the public and private sector in PPPs usually comes down to the question: who is responsible for managing a particular risk? Yet research …
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A study of risk management and capital allocation in Korean Insurance Companies
… is 22.8%. As the asset size increases very fast, risk management plays a vital role in the Korean life insurance industry. Before the financial crisis in 1998, the risk management system was very weak in Korea. It was because the government controlled and protected the life insurance companies. …
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