Testing products in a cost-efficient way remains an attractive topic for Model-Based Testing (MBT) of product lines in both academia and industry, which can be addressed by employing systematic and automated approaches based on models (such as feature models and UML models). Cost-effective testing products can be divided into three main problems, i.e., test selection, test generation, and test ...

Uniform effort sharing rules for tranfrontier pollution problems, like the popular equal percentage reduction arrangement, do not result in a cost efficient allocation of emission abatement efforts. In addition, they may violate voluntary participation constraints if the uniform effort level is decided upon by means of ordinary majority vote. In contrast to ordinary majority vote, we consider i...

IT governance is an executive level concern in many enterprises today, but a method for credible, reliable, and cost-efficient IT governance maturity assessment has been lacking. Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (Cobit) is best practice in the area, but the method requires an experienced analyst to perform the assessment and the provided analysis framework is vague and ...

This presentation argues that a systems approach can significantly enhance healthcare improvement efforts in patient safety, service quality, and healthcare cost containment. The application of systems thinking to healthcare improvement encompasses three key principles: systems perspective of healthcare processes, structured problem-solving, and the closed-loop of continuous system improvement....

Interest groups and experts debate the cost of greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction, andpolicy-makers do not know whom to believe. IVte confusion stems from differing definitions of costs and divergent assumptions about key uncertainties, especially the role of policy in influencing the long-run evolution of technologies and consumer preferences. Analysis could be more helpful to policy-makers by com...

The growth in demand for electric power and the rapid increase in fuel costs, in whole of theworld need to discover new energy resources for electricity production. Among of the nonconventionalresources, wind and solar energy, is known as the most promising deviceselectricity production in the future. In this thesis, we study follows to long-term generationscheduling of power systems in the pre...

Intrusion detection systems need to maximize security while minimizing costs. In this paper, we study the problem of building cost-sensitive intrusion detection models. We examine the major cost factors: development costs, operational costs, damage costs incurred due to intrusions, and the costs involved in responding to intrusions. We propose cost-sensitive machine learning techniques to produ...