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Elsevier2019

A solid thermal storage model for the optimization of buildings operation strategy

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With an increasing fluctuation of energy supply due to the integration of renewable energy utilities peak- shaving becomes more and more important. Storage systems are a considerable option for this purpose. For the heat supply in cities the buildings them ...

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Distributionally Robust Workforce Scheduling in Call Centers with Uncertain Arrival Rates

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Call centre scheduling aims to determine the workforce so as to meet target service levels. The service level depends on the mean rate of arrival calls, which fluctuates during the day, and from day to day. The staff schedule must adjust the workforce peri ...

Taylor & Francis2013

Institutional Investors and Mutual Fund Governance: Evidence from Retail-Institutional Fund Twins

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Advisors often manage multiple versions of a fund. These "twins" have the same manager and similar performance but are sold to different investors with differing abilities to select and monitor managers. Comparing investor flows in retail and institutional ...

Oxford University Press2012

Interrelating Operational and Financial Performance Measurements

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa

Financial supply chain management and working capital management are increasingly receiving attention as important avenues to increase profitability in supply chains. By actively managing payment terms and working capital requirements, managers can influen ...

Elsevier2010

Interrelating operational and financial performance measurements in inventory control

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa

2010

e-Innovation and financial services

Yang Yang

The Internet, a classic Schumpeterian innovation, has profoundly altered our lives and influenced the ways we do business. It is now widely accepted by policy makers, scholars, and enterprises that the Internet and related information technologies are the ...

EPFL2008

Interrelating Operational and Financial Performance Measurements in Inventory Control

Ralf Seifert

2008

Impact Analysis of Carbon Tax on the Renewal Planning of Energy Supply System for an Office Building

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat

An optimal planning method is proposed for the renewal planning problem of an energy supply system installed into building from economic viewpoint. In this method, the objective function to be minimized is the average annual total cost during the evaluatio ...

2008

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