Cost as Calculation Category

Cost of Attention as an Indicator of Category Learning

Category learning often involves selective attention to category relevant information, which may result in learned inattention to category irrelevant information. This learned inattention is a cost of selective attention. In the current research, the cost of attention was used as an indicator of category learning. Participants were given a category learning task, and the amount of supervision g...

Integrating Logistics Cost Calculation into Production Costing

Production costing is a well developed area of cost management. There are several applications reported which make use of the up-to-date costing methods like activity-based costing. Nevertheless, research in product cost calculation has paid limited attention to logistics costing so far. This paper aims to investigate how logistics cost calculation can be integrated into production costing. The...

Sensitivity Analysis of Life Cycle Cost Calculation

This paper presents a sensitivity analysis of the life cycle cost calculation made in the master thesis “Maintenance management of wind power systems Cost effect analysis of condition monitoring systems” by Julia Nilsson (2006). In that thesis, the possible economical gain of a conditioned monitoring system (CMS) in wind power plants is investigated, by comparison of life cycle costs for differ...

Gradient Calculation of the Traveltime Cost

Cost Calculation Model for Logistics Service Providers

The exact calculation of logistics costs has become a real challenge in logistics and supply chain management. It is essential to gain reliable and accurate costing information to attain efficient resource allocation within the logistics service provider companies. Traditional costing approaches, however, may not be sufficient to reach this aim in case of complex and heterogeneous logistics ser...