Metabolic systems cost-benefit analysis for interpreting network structure and regulation

Benefit-Cost Analysis for Financial Regulation

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act calls for extensive rule-making for financial regulation, the details of which are left up to the relevant enforcement agencies. To help ensure that this wide discretion is not abused, regulators should be required to use Benefit-Cost Analysis (BCA). While BCA has been used extensively and increasingly in in environmental, health and safety regulation (EHS)...

Cost-Benefit Analysis in Canadian Securities Regulation

Relocatable, Automated Cost-Benefit Analysis for Marine Sensor Network Design

When designing sensor networks, we need to ensure they produce representative and relevant data, but this must be offset by the financial cost of placing sensors. We describe a novel automated method for generating and combining cost and benefit values to decide on the best sensor locations using information about the specific constraints available in most coastal locations. Costs in maintenanc...

Using Cost-Benefit Analysis to Evaluate Mitigation for Lifeline Systems

The purpose of this research is to examine how cost-benefit analysis (CBA) can be utilized to evaluate the attractiveness of mitigation for lifeline systems subject to earthquake ground motion. We propose a framework for the CBA that can be used in conjunction with work being completed by other researchers at MCEER (Shinozuka et al., 2000; Chang et al., 2000). With their development of fragilit...

Cost- Benefit Analysis of Gas to Liquids Project for the South-Pars Gas Field of Iran

This paper presents an economic evaluation of gas to liquids (GTL) project using “South-Pars” gas field of Iran based on the latest actual performing GTL projects. Iran has the world’s largest reserves of natural gas and can satisfy the projected long-term market demand of GTL products which have lower pollution and higher quality than refinery products. The results of cost-benefit analysis sho...