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Scheduling Markovian PERT networks with maximum-NPV objective. [PDF]

open access: yes
We examine project scheduling with net-present-value objective and exponential activity durations, using a continuous-time Markov decision chain. Based on a judicious partitioning of the state space, we achieve a significant performance improvement ...
Creemers, Stefan   +2 more
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A variable neighborhood search simheuristic for project portfolio selection under uncertainty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
With limited nancial resources, decision-makers in rms and governments face the task of selecting the best portfolio of projects to invest in. As the pool of project proposals increases and more realistic constraints are considered, the problem becomes
Döering, Jana   +4 more
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Can’t See the Wood for the Trees: The Returns to Farm Forestry in Ireland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
working paperThe period 2007-2009 witnessed considerable variability in the price of outputs such as milk and cereals and this was compounded by a high degree of volatility in the price of inputs such as fertilizer, animal feed and energy.
Breen, J.   +3 more
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Economic effects of investment in dairy farming [PDF]

open access: yesWestern Balkan Journal of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 2020
Dairy farming is the most significant part of cattle raising. During the previous several years the volume of milk production has been maintained at a stable level, while there came to fall in number of dairy cows and number of farms engaged in dairy ...
Subić Jonel   +2 more
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Supplier selection strategy – NPV comparison

open access: yesThe Romanian Economic Journal, 2023
The supply chain has gained prominence in recent years, both in specialized literature and in economic practice, being defined and analysed as an operational component of the behaviour of economic actors, both those with global activities and those with localized activities.
openaire   +2 more sources

Firm Value and the mis-use of the CAPM for valuation and decision making [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper shows that a decision maker using the CAPM for valuing firms and making decisions may contradict Modigliani and Miller’s Proposition I, if he adopts the widely-accepted disequilibrium NPV.
Magni, Carlo Alberto
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Methodology for assessing the economic efficiency of using an ontology-based decision support system for selecting aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles

open access: yesАвіаційно-космічна техніка та технологія
The subject of this study is the process of the formalized selection of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for specific missions using an ontology-based decision support system (ODSS) and the methods for analyzing the economic effectiveness of ...
Iurii Vorobiov   +2 more
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Substantiation of the optimal performance parameters for a quarry during the stage-wise development of steeply dipping ore deposits

open access: yesЗаписки Горного института
The use of stage-wise schemes in the development of deep quarries is one of the ways to increase the economic efficiency of mining a deposit and determining the optimal stage parameters remains an urgent task.
Sergey I. Fomin, Maxim P. Ovsyannikov
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A systematic method of project selection based on risk and return criteria and according to the mean-semi-deviation behavioral hypothesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The uncertain problem of Industrial project selection is the topic of discussion in this article. As the unrealistic assumption of certainty is relaxed in this problem, the decision maker is faced with a two-criterion decision model in which justifying ...
Jafarizadeh, Babak, Ramazani, Reza
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