Stochastic programming solution for placement of satellite ground stationsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 283 - Trang 267-288 - 2018
Aaron B. Hoskins, Hugh R. Medal
Disaster recovery efforts are enhanced through the collection and dissemination of satellite data, which is downloaded from satellites to ground stations. The optimal ground station locations vary depending on the location of the disaster, but ground station construction occurs before the realization of a disaster. Thus, a stochastic optimization problem arises: decide the location of ground stati...... hiện toàn bộ
A financial fraud detection indicator for investors: an IDeASpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2019
Philippe Bernard, Najat El Mekkaoui De Freitas, Bertrand B. Maillet
Fraud detection is a key issue for investors and financial authorities. The Ponzi scheme organized by Bernard Madoff is a magnified example of a financial fraud, always possible when well-orchestrated. Traditional methods to detect fraud require costly and lengthy investigations that involve complex financial and legal knowledge, as well as highly skilled analysts. Based on the motto “too good to ...... hiện toàn bộ
Product flexibility of competitive manufactures: the effect of debt financingSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 307 Số 1 - Trang 53-74 - 2021
Cao, Guozhao, Wang, Zhan
The goal of this paper was to examine the effect of debt financing on competitive manufactures’ product flexible capacity decisions. For this purpose, two competing firms were considered to invest in product flexible capacity and product dedicated capacity, respectively, each of them produced two products. Before investing in the capacity, each firm issues the optimal amount of debt. The product f...... hiện toàn bộ
Rigid and flexible automation for manufacturing systems: Characterizing economically-reasonable investmentsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 21-35 - 1988
Michael C. Burstein
As flexible manufacturing technology has become available across a broad range of applications, an increasingly large number of firms have confronted decisions about the adoption of flexible automation versus transfer lines versus some combination of these technologies. While the work of previous authors has provided some guidance to such decision making, the modular character of flexible capacity...... hiện toàn bộ
A graph-theoretic approach to analyzing knowledge bases containing rules, models and dataSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 75 - Trang 3-23 - 1997
Amit Basu, Robert W. Blanning
Decision support systems (DSS) have traditionally utilized stored data and decision models as sources of information. In recent years, such systems have also started to include a certain amount of expert knowledge, usually in the form of rules. Unfortunately, despite the evolution of systems containing all three types of resources, effective tools to comprehensively analyze the relationships betwe...... hiện toàn bộ
PrefaceSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2001
Henrik Blank, Rainer Burkard, Gautam Mitra, Toshihide Ibaraki, Steven Noble, William R. Pulleyblank
A study on supply chain investment decision-making and coordination in the Big Data environmentSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 270 - Trang 235-253 - 2017
Pan Liu, Shu-ping Yi
In the Big Data environment, aims of enterprises investing in Big Data are to gain Big Data information (BDI). To study the decision-making issues of BDI investment and its effects on supply chain coordination, a supply chain with one retailer and one manufacturer was chosen. Meanwhile, considering a company owned the internal BDI and the external BDI, the market demand function was revised and fo...... hiện toàn bộ