School of Management. The CEEPR encourages and supports policy research on topics of interest to the public and private sectors in the U.S. and internationally. The views experessed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We examine the value of an exploration prospect that is to be exploited via a series of possibly dep...

The goal of the standards is to “address what a voting system should reliably do, not how system components should be configured to meet these requirement” [5, Vol I §1.1]. The standards present a certification procedure involving testing by an Independent Testing Authority (ITA) and many jurisdictions cannot use systems that are uncertified. Virtually all vendors have this testing done. Nevert...

This paper focuses on the probabilistic numerical solution of the problems in mining, machine industry and biomechanics. Theory and applications of the Simulation-Based Reliability Assessment (SBRA) method are presented in the solution of the hard rock (ore) disintegration process (i.e. the bit moves into the ore and subsequently disintegrates it, the results are compared with experiments, new ...

This paper presents the benefits from publishing the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s FactPages, a public and popular, freely available dataset, into semantically annotated and query enabled five star linked open data. We discuss and illustrate the added value of publishing open datasets on the Web using web standards, semantic web technologies and best practices— contrasted to the lesser suit...