Dr. Anton J. Kleywegt School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Date Approved: July 6, 2009 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank my advisors, Dr. Shi-Jie Deng and Dr. John H. Vande Vate, for their guidance of my research. I am particularly indebted to them—Prof. Vande Vate especially— for technical and expository advice in the portion of the dissertation on capacity planning. I also thank Dr. R. Gary Parker for his support of my graduate studies. iii TABLE
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Electric power systems must have sufficient reserves so that generation is always adequate to meet varying customer demand. Because electricity demand cannot be known in advance with certainty, and also because generators, transmission lines and distribution systems can experience forced outages, a capacity margin requirement is necessary to maintain reliability [4]. Capacity Credit (CC) assigned to WECS is the fraction of its installed capacity by which conventional power generation capacity can be
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Relevant cash flows Answer: d Diff: E . Which of the following statements is most correct? a. The rate of depreciation will often affect operating cash flows, even though depreciation is not a cash expense. b. Corporations should fully account for sunk costs when making investment decisions. c. Corporations should fully account for opportunity costs when making investment decisions. d. Statements a and c are correct. e. All of the statements above are correct. Relevant cash flows Answer:
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A Statistical Perspective on Data Mining Ranjan Maitra∗ Abstract Technological advances have led to new and automated data collection methods. Datasets once at a premium are often plentiful nowadays and sometimes indeed massive. A new breed of challenges are thus presented – primary among them is the need for methodology to analyze such masses of data with a view to understanding complex phenomena and relationships. Such capability is provided by data mining which combines core statistical techniques
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IBIMA Publishing Journal of Marketing Research and Case Studies http://www.ibimapublishing.com/journals/JMRCS/jmrcs.html Vol. 2011 (2011), Article ID 421059, 17 pages DOI: 10.5171/2011.421059 Analyzing the Effectiveness of Marketing Strategies in the Presence of Word of Mouth: Agent-Based Modeling Approach Çiğdem Karakaya, Bertan Badur and Can Aytekin Boğaziçi University, Management Information Systems Department, Istanbul/Turkey _____________________________________________________________
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RULES AND REGULATIONS OF M.B.A. PROGRAMME – 2010 The Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) is a Post-Graduate course offered as: I. II. Two-year i.e., four semester Full time Day programme Three year, i.e., six semester Part-time programme offered to Working Executives and employees. 1. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS 1.1 M.B.A. (Day) Candidate seeking admission into Full Time M.B.A. (Day) programme must be: 1. Bachelor degree holder of Osmania University or a degree recognized by the university
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≈√ Guidelines on Credit Risk Management Rating Models a n d Va l i d a t i o n These guidelines were prepared by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) in cooperation with the Financial Market Authority (FMA) Published by: Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) Otto Wagner Platz 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) Praterstrasse 23, 1020 Vienna, Austria Produced by: Oesterreichische Nationalbank Editor in chief: Gunther Thonabauer, Secretariat of the
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