Browsing Operations Research Center Working Papers by Issue Date
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Risk Independence and Multiattributed Utility Functions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1971-06)The concepts of conditional risk aversion, the conditional risk premium, and risk independence pertaining to multiattributed utility functions are defined. The latter notion is then generalized to what is called utility ... -
A New M. I.T. Graduate Course: Analysis of Urban Service Systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1971-06)Abstract not available -
Methods for Allocating Urban Emergency Units
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1971-06)An urban emergency service system provides mobile units (vehicles) to respond to requests for service which can occur at any time and any place throughout a city. This paper surveys recent quantitative work aimed at improving ... -
Interpreting Accident Statistics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1971-07)Accident statistics have often been used to support the argument that an abnormally small proportion of drivers account for a large proportion of the accidents. This paper compares statistics developed from six-year data ... -
A Rational Approach to Governmental Decision Concerning Air Pollution
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1971-08)This paper addresses a problem common to many government agencies--trying to specify a regulatory policy that is in some sense best for a given situation. Such questions demand the consideration of multiple conflicting ... -
The Effect of Removing Accidents Repeaters From the Road
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1971-12)In newspaper editorials, public commentaries and the like, licensing authorities are often advised to solve the "accident problem" by taking the "nut behind the wheel" off the road. This paper uses six-year driver records ... -
Posterior Inference for Structural Parameters Using Cross Section and Time Series Data
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Thoughts on Curriculum Development for Public Systems Analysis
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Constructive Duality in Integer Programming
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The Long Term Effects of Merit Rating Plans on Individual Motorists
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1972-04)Student interest in public sector problems has increased markedly in recent years. At M.I.T., this change has increased the demand for courses and programs of study that lead to the development of technologically advanced ... -
A Model for Optimal Dynamic Control of Emissions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1972-05)This paper argues that, for large air pollution sources, it may be better to set emission standards which differ for days with differing ventilation conditions instead of the common method of setting a single emission ... -
On the Number of Latent Subsets of Intersecting Collections
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A Survey of the Inventory Control-Detailed Scheduling Problem
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Nonlinear programming and the maximum principle for discrete time optimal control problems
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Aggregate capacity planning : a survey
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On-Line Simulation of Urban Police Partrol and Dispatching
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Complementary Bases of a Matroid
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Acceleration Noise as a Measure of Effectiveness in the Operation of Traffic Control System
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1973-03)Acceleration Noise measures the disutility associated with successive decelerations and accelerations in a signalized environment. It provides an indication of the smoothness of traffic flow. As such it constitutes a ... -
A Linear Approximation Approach to Duality in Nonlinear Programming
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1973-04)Linear approximation and linear programming duality theory are used as unifying tools to develop saddlepoint, Fenchel and local duality theory. Among results presented is a new and elementary proof of the necessity and ... -
Assumptions for a Market Share Theorem
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1973-05)Many marketing models use variants of the relationship: market share equals marketing effort divided by total marketing effort. Usually, share is defined within a customer group presumed to be reasonably homogeneous and ...