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Scheduling to Minimize Interaction Cost
Operations Research, 1966A model is developed for a scheduling problem in which several activities are competing for a limited number of facilities. It is assumed that any number of activities may be scheduled on any single facility; however there is an interaction cost corresponding to every combination of two activities scheduled on the same facility.
Carlson, R. C., Nemhauser, G. L.
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Cost minimizing water main quality index: A static cost minimization approach
Water Resources and Economics, 2016Our paper focuses on the issue of obsolete water mains which is the main cause of water loss in developed countries. We determine the cost-efficient water mains quality index according to different parameters such as the cost of water supply, the demand for water and the cost of good quality water mains.
Cousin, Elissa, Taugourdeau, Emmanuelle
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Cost minimization of ribosomal frameshifts
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2007Properties of mRNA leading regions that modulate protein synthesis are little known (besides effects of their secondary structure). Here I explore how coding properties of leading regions may account for their disparate efficiencies. Trinucleotides that form off frame stop codons decrease costs of ribosomal slippages during protein synthesis: protein ...
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International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 2001
Index tracking is a very common and popular approach in portfolio management. When there is neither (nonconvex) transaction costs nor minimal transaction unit constraints, the problem can be formulated as a convex least square problem, so that it can be solved by standard methods.
Konno, Hiroshi, Wijayanayake, Annista
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Index tracking is a very common and popular approach in portfolio management. When there is neither (nonconvex) transaction costs nor minimal transaction unit constraints, the problem can be formulated as a convex least square problem, so that it can be solved by standard methods.
Konno, Hiroshi, Wijayanayake, Annista
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MINIMIZING COSTS UNDER CONSTRAINTS
IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2007Abstract The present paper deals with the costs the production of goods and services involves in the conditions of a company's struggle to keep those costs as low as possible in order to afford competitive prices on various markets. Several types of constraints emerge which compel the management to consume resources, for instance financial resources,
Lucian-Ionel Cioca +2 more
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Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, 2012
Given a directed graph G, a reachability query (u, v) asks whether there exists a path from a node u to a node v in G. The existing studies support reachability queries using indexing techniques, where both the graph and the index are required to reside in main memory.
Zhiwei Zhang +4 more
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Given a directed graph G, a reachability query (u, v) asks whether there exists a path from a node u to a node v in G. The existing studies support reachability queries using indexing techniques, where both the graph and the index are required to reside in main memory.
Zhiwei Zhang +4 more
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Cost-minimizing welfare programs
Journal of Public Economics, 1986Abstract We study opportunities for lowering the cost of welfare programs by exploiting heterogeneity in the unobservable tastes of welfare recipients. Relying on the inability of cash-based programs to achieve self-selection, we provide circumstances in which it is optimal to provide payments-in- kind.
Ronald A. Dye, Rick Antle
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Antimicrobial stewardship programs – cost-minimizing or cost-effective?
Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, 2014Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are aimed to improve patient care and health care outcomes. It is encouraging to find ASP interventions to be cost-saving in many cost-minimization analyses in literature. Nevertheless, the cost-effectiveness of ASP interventions, measured in cost per quality-adjusted life-years, is less well-established.
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IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 1971
Requirements for unusual operating environments and high reliability necessitate qualification and life tests of new or changed components. Considering these requirements, test planners determine test environments, instrumentation, and the number of parts and elapsed hours for the life test.
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Requirements for unusual operating environments and high reliability necessitate qualification and life tests of new or changed components. Considering these requirements, test planners determine test environments, instrumentation, and the number of parts and elapsed hours for the life test.
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Minimizing Medical Costs-Reply
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1983In Reply. —We disagree with Dr Gordon that the statistical question asked in clinical testing of a less costly treatment is different from that posed in any other randomized trial. The major hypothesis to be tested in this or any randomized trial is whether the two treatments are different.
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