Using landscape analysis and economic valuation, this article shows how valuation techniques can inform prioritization of private forestland for ecosystem service conservation and highlights the methodological challenges in doing so. We classify forests according to six ecological and social characteristics. If ecosystem service priorities are known a priori, this landscape analysis might be su...

This paper discusses various interpersonal factors with implications for valuation of statistical lives (VSL). We argue that such factors are important and that a valuation principle whereby risk changes are elicited on a purely individualistic basis may seriously bias VSL valuation. Risk-focussed altruism and purely selfish motivations for the survival of others, in particular close family mem...

Local computation in join trees or acyclic hypertrees has been shown to be linked to a particular algebraic structure, called valuation algebra. There are many models of this algebraic structure ranging from probability theory to numerical analysis, relational databases and various classical and non-classical logics. It turns out that many interesting models of valuation algebras may be derived...

Valuation algebras are known to present a common roof over various applications out of different domains of research. In combination with the power of local computation it offers a possibility to solve inference problems in an efficient way. Implementing concretely these concepts by instantiating a valuation algebra means loosing the high level of abstraction. This paper presents a generic real...

To make a decision, a system must assign value to each of its available choices. In the human brain, one approach to studying valuation has used rewarding stimuli to map out brain responses by varying the dimension or importance of the rewards. However, theoretical models have taught us that value computations are complex, and so reward probes alone can give only partial information about neura...

Let R be a pseudo-valuation domain with associated valuation domain V and I a nonzero proper ideal of R. Let R̂ (resp., V̂ ) be the I-adic (resp., IV -adic) completion of R (resp., V ). We show that R̂ is a pseudo-valuation domain (which may be a field); and that if I 6= I2, then V̂ is the associated valuation domain of R̂. Let R be an SFT globalized pseudo-valuation domain with associated Prüfer do...

In this paper, an analogy between IT firm valuation and IS valuation is used to learn from how investment banking professionals cope with the renowned valuation problem. It becomes clear that theoretically sound approaches like the discounted cash flow might be inappropriate to determine the true value of a software company. Especially for IT valuation, real options approaches are a promising w...

Consequently, in equilibrium, if a consumer with valuation v0 buys and patches the software, then every consumer with valuation v > v0 will also buy and patch, and hence there exists a vp ∈ 0 1 such that a consumer with valuation v ∈ will buy and patch if and only if v≥ vp, in which case ∗ v = B P . We next consider the buying decision in the second period. If a consumer with valuation v decide...

Valuations were introduced in De Bruyn andVandecasteele (Valuations of near polygons, preprint, 2004) as a very important tool for classifying near polygons. In the present paperwe study valuations of dual polar spaces.Wewill introduce the class of theSDPS-valuations and characterize these valuations. We will show that a valuation of a finite thick dual polar space is the extension of an SDPS-v...