A two-station network with controllable inputs and sequencing control, proposed by Wein [23], is analyzed. A control is sought to minimize holding cost subject to a throughput constraint. In a Lagrangian formulation, input vanishes in the fluid limit. Several alternative fluid models, including workload formulations, are analyzed to develop a heuristic policy for the stochastic network. Both th...

In this presentation I would like to explore policy convergence between national higher education states, particularly the diffusion of globalizing models. The focus is on governmental policymakers: their transnational networks, worldwide reference points, and the dilemmas they face in responding to the increasing global diffusion of powerful governance models, such as those associated with the...

Face-to-face contact, even temporary one, helps researchers form personal ties and transfer tacit knowledge. The ability of researchers to colocate, including attendance at international conferences, workshops and seminars, is affected by the administrative barriers to international mobility. This paper uses a gravity-style empirical framework to examine the link between international knowledge...

Automated trust negotiation (ATN) is a promising approach to establishing trust between two entities without any prior knowledge of each other. However, real-world authorization processes often involve online input from third parties, which ATN does not support. In this paper, we introduce multiparty trust negotiation (MTN) as a new approach to distributed authorization. We define a Datalog-bas...

5 A theoretical analysis tool, iterated optimal stopping, has been used as the basis of a numerical 6 algorithm for American options under regime switching [25]. Similar methods have also been proposed 7 for American options under jump diffusion [4] and Asian options under jump diffusion [5]. An alternative 8 method, local policy iteration, has been suggested in [27, 19]. Worst case upper bound...

Manuscript under peer review. Do not cite or circulate without authors' permission. Abstract The diffusion of electric vehicles (EVs) is considered an effective policy strategy to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets. For large-scale adoption, however, demand-side oriented policy measures are required, based on consumers' transport needs, values and social norms. We introduce an empirically gr...

We consider a canonical revenue management problem in a network setting where the goal is to find a customer admission policy to maximize the total expected revenue over a fixed finite horizon. There is a set of resources, each of which has a fixed capacity. There are several customer classes, each with an associated arrival process, price, and resource consumption vector. If a customer is acce...

Title of Document: LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION POLICY IN AN IMPERFECT WORLD. Gokul C. Iyer, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Directed By: Associate Professor Nathan E. Hultman School of Public Policy It is widely acknowledged that an important element of climate change mitigation policy will be the development and diffusion of low-carbon technologies. This dissertation uses ...

One of the main dimensions of the added value of EU cohesion policy is its capacity to enhance cooperation and coordination in the delivery of the regional development policy through the partnership principle. However, research to date suggests that the lack of traditions of collaborative policy-making in some Member States can result in patchy application of partnership. This prompts questions...