A wide array of alternatives has been proposed as the common metrics with which to compare the climate impacts of different emission types. Different physical and economic metrics and their parameterizations give diverse weights between e.g. CH4 and CO2, and fixing the metric from one perspective makes it sub-optimal from another. As the aims of global climate policy involve some degree of ambi...

Crossover designs are well-known to have major advantages when comparing the effects of various non-curative treatments. We compare efficiencies of several crossover designs along with the Balaam’s design with that of a parallel group design pertaining to longitudinal studies where event time can only be measured in discrete time intervals. With equally sized sequences, the parallel group desig...

This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Computer Science at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Computer Science Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Repository Citation Bhagavathi, D.; Gurla, H.; Olariu, S.; Schwing, J. L.; and Zhang, J., "Timeand Co...

The partnership between banks and non-banks is one of the oldest and most common lateral business partnerships. While banks are looking for new markets and for cost efficient ways to implement new business models, SMEs presumably have considerable efficiency potentials within their financial processes. Some of these potentials could be realized by embedding functionality provided by banks withi...

We study the impact of multilateral private information about inventory levels in twoechelon supply chain environments. We find that greater bargaining power of the downstream chain member promotes the efficiency of supply chain in terms of operational cost. More specifically, we focus on two polar cases: i) multiple suppliers with limited inventories supplying to a single retailer; and ii) a s...

This study constructs a regulatory system for information sharing on industrial internet platforms from technical and socio-legal perspective. A differentiated game is used to construct decentralized, centralized, cost-sharing contract decision-making scenarios obtain the optimal level of efforts information-sharing regulation. Through comparative analysis, solutions under three were derived. T...

This paper seeks to systematically explore the efficiency of the uncoordinated information-assisted parking search in urban environments with two types of parking resource facilities: inexpensive but limited facilities (public) and expensive yet unlimited ones (private); an additional cruising cost is incurred when deciding for a public facility but failing to actually utilize one. Drivers deci...

In markets with adverse selection, when average quality is low and frictions are small decentralized trade produces a greater surplus than predicted by the competitive model: under decentralized trade some high-quality units of the good trade whereas, due to the “lemons problem,” only low-quality units trade in the competitive equilibrium. This suggests a reason why these markets are often dece...

One of the most widely known solar thermal applications is solar water heating. In terms of installation expenditures and energy cost over the total life of the system, solar water heating technology has proven to be cost efficient for several domestic and industrial applications. Technological practicability of these systems has long been recognized and is presently employed in commercial sect...

Iu recent years, a nurnber ofparallel algorithms have appeared for the generation ofcombinator-ial objects such as combinations, permutations, subsets, equivalence relations, etc. However, ltlauy of these algorithms are not cost-optimal, are designed for a powerful model of coutputirtion, or require a large rnemory per processor. To date, no parallel derangement generltion ulgorithrn possessing...