Alternatives to Demand-Driven Acquisitions: An Exploration of Opportunity Costs

IRM - An Opportunity to Proactively Reduce Costs and Improve Profitability

Floods, snow, $5.00 corn, $.50 calves, and a $55 fed cattle market—What is this, a list of reasons not to be in the cattle business? No, just a description of 1996. In addition to these factors, there has been consumer frenzy regarding outbreaks of E. coli and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States and Europe, respectively. All of these represent reasons why cattlemen need ...

Voter responses to challenger opportunity costs

How do voters evaluate candidates in competitive elections? Gordon et al. [Gordon, S.C., Huber, G.A., Landa, D., 2007. Challenger entry and voter learning. American Political Science Review 101 (May), pp. 303–320.] present a model in which the fact of a serious electoral challenge conveys information about the relative competence of the candidates, over and above that conveyed by observable mea...

Communication Costs Driven Design Space Exploration for Reconfigurable Architectures

In this paper we propose a design space exploration method targeting reconfigurable architectures that takes place at the algorithmic level and aims to rapidly highlight architectures that present good performance vs. flexibility tradeoffs. The exploration flow is based on a functional model to describe the architectures that the designer wants to compare. The paper mainly focuses on the projec...

Copper limits: opportunity costs.

The Past, Present, and Future of Demand-Driven Acquisitions in Academic Libraries

The challenge of creating an effective and appropriate library collection has been further tested by the recent advent of what Clayton Christensen has termed “disruptive technology.” In his well-known study, The Innovator’s Dilemma, Christensen explores the impact of technological change on the business and other communities. For Christensen, technology can either be sustaining or disruptive. S...