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A further note on the fleet design problem.
INTRODUCTION In [2], Jones and Zydiak discuss the steady state fleet design problem, which has no natural initial distribution of vehicles, and develop a new optimality criterion of minimizing . . .

Some economic decision problems in warranty planning.
INTRODUCTION A warranty is a producer's guarantee that a product or service will adequately meet performance requirements for a certain period. Warranty costs carry a significant burden to . . .

Keeping it sophisticatedly simple in R&D project management.
INTRODUCTION RECIPE FOR STONE SOUP Souder and Mandakovic [4] observed that "today, there is a growing recognition that project-selection models should be used to ask questions of the entire . . .

Improving system maintenance decisions: a value of information framework.
INTRODUCTION Over the last two decades, significant technological advances have led to the development of highly automated and sophisticated systems in the manufacturing, construction, and . . .

Current capital investment practices.
CURRENT CAPITAL INVESTMENT PRACTICES Effective allocation of a company's capital resources is a key to corporate success. Most theorists hold that effective allocation can best be achieved with a . . .

Suggestions for teaching engineering economy at the undergraduate level.(response to article by Joseph C. Hartman in this issue,
INTRODUCTION Unfortunately, teaching engineering economy at the undergraduate level has become stagnant and trivial. Course material has focused on cash-flow analysis while topics including cost . . .

Suggestions for teaching engineering economy at the undergraduate level.
Let me start by saying that I wish I'd had Joe Hartman for my engineering economy course. The course he outlines is interesting, demanding, and valuable. I also find that I agree with much of . . .

The research and experimentation tax credit - an engineering economist's perspective.
INTRODUCTION Technology policy is defined as the government's decisions of whether and how to intervene in private research and development (R&D), and its provision of funds for public R&D [16]. . . .

Design economics for electronics assembly.
INTRODUCTION Although most of a product's cost, typically about 80%, is determined early in the design stage, many design decisions are made during this stage with little knowledge of the effect . . .

Engineering economic decision issues in environmentally conscious design and manufacturing.
INTRODUCTION Environmentally conscious design and manufacturing (ECDM) presents one of the most difficult challenges engineers have ever faced. It requires them to consider issues outside their . . .

Risk-neutral option pricing methods for adjusting constrained cash flows.
INTRODUCTION Discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis is probably the most common approach for evaluating projects with uncertain future cash flows. The fundamental assumption in these models is that . . .

Economic analysis of R&D projects: an options approach.
INTRODUCTION All major corporations annually allocate substantial funds for research and development (R&D). These R&D projects typically have high associated uncertainties with no immediate . . .

Genetic Algorithms and Engineering Design.(Review)
John Wiley & Sons Inc., ISBN 0-471-12741-8, 411 pp., $89.95. David W. Coit Rutgers University The history of genetic algorithms (GAs) can be loosely partitioned into three overlapping . . .

The mid-period and other approximations in the presence of uniform intraperiod cash flows: a critical evaluation of relative err
INTRODUCTION In an uniform intraperiod cash flow, a uniform series of receipts or disbursements occurs at the end of each and every subperiod throughout an interest period. This type of cash flow . . .

Machine selection and part assignment analysis under annual budget constraint: a capital budgeting case study.
INTRODUCTION The concept of outsourcing has been practiced for years by manufacturing industry. Outsourcing has both advantages and disadvantages. On the advantage side, organizations that . . .

Measures of liquidity risk supplementing fuzzy discounted cash flow analysis.
INTRODUCTION Discounted cash flow (DCF) methods are widely used in capital budgeting; however, determining cash flows (revenues, expenses) and discount rates as crisp values can lead to erroneous . . .

On the use of the profit rate function in disassembly process planning.
INTRODUCTION Recycling of industrial and consumer products at the end of their life cycles has not gained full attention from industry until recently, due to the high process cost and to the low . . .

Discount rates for government investment projects: the economic logic behind OMB Circular A-94.(US Office of Management and Budg
INTRODUCTION U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-94 provides the following: "guidance on benefit-cost, cost-effectiveness, and lease-purchase analysis to be used by agencies . . .

Automobile replacement case studies for engineering economy classes.
INTRODUCTION Case studies have long been used to supplement material in a variety of courses, including engineering economics. The development of a case study that is both interesting to . . .

Determination of the optimal procurement policy under integrating working capital.
INTRODUCTION In view of the interrelationships among inventory, procurement, cash discounts, accounts payable and accounts receivable policies, both academicians and practitioners appear to have . . .

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