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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
171

The completion time variance problem and its extensions.

January 1996 (has links)
Ng Chi To. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-173). / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Problem Formulation and Motivation --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Past Research Works --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Results of the Study --- p.5 / Chapter 1.4 --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.7 / Chapter Part I --- THE CTV PROBLEM --- p.9 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- A GENERALIZATION OF SCHRAGE'S CONJEC- TURE --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1 --- Schrage's Conjecture --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2 --- Generalization --- p.13 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- ASYMPTOTIC OPTIMALITY --- p.15 / Chapter 3.1 --- Optimal Sequences under a Symmetric Structure --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2 --- An Upper Bound for the Relative Error --- p.21 / Chapter 3.3 --- Asymptotical Probabilistic Analysis --- p.25 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- ADDITIONAL FINDINGS --- p.37 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- THE BEST V-SHAPED SEQUENCE --- p.46 / Chapter 5.1 --- Transformation of the CTV Problem to a Boolean Optimization Problem --- p.47 / Chapter 5.2 --- Minimization of the Expected CTV among All the V-shaped Fixed Sequences --- p.48 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- THE WORST CASE ANALYSIS --- p.65 / Chapter 6.1 --- A Lower Bound for the CTV Problem --- p.66 / Chapter 6.2 --- A Worst Case Bound --- p.71 / Chapter Part II --- EXTENSIONS --- p.75 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- A MORE GENERAL MODEL --- p.76 / Chapter 7.1 --- Some Basic Concepts --- p.76 / Chapter 7.2 --- Problem Description --- p.78 / Chapter 7.3 --- Applications and Difficulties --- p.80 / Chapter Chapter 8 --- THE ZERO STARTING PROBLEM --- p.83 / Chapter 8.1 --- Problem Transformation --- p.85 / Chapter 8.2 --- Properties --- p.88 / Chapter 8.3 --- Algorithm A and Promising Solutions --- p.93 / Chapter 8.4 --- Time Complexity of Algorithm A --- p.94 / Chapter Chapter 9 --- PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS OF PROMISING SO- LUTIONS --- p.95 / Chapter 9.1 --- Promising Solutions under a Symmetric Structure --- p.95 / Chapter 9.2 --- An Upper Bound for the Relative Error of Promising Solutions --- p.100 / Chapter 9.3 --- Probabilistic Analysis on the Relative Error of Promising Solutions --- p.106 / Chapter Chapter 10 --- CONCLUDING REMARKS AND FUTURE RESEARCH WORK --- p.118 / Appendix A Preliminary Results for Analysis --- p.122 / Appendix B Proofs of Some Lemmas --- p.127 / Appendix C Proofs of Some Theorems --- p.149 / Appendix D Proofs of Some Properties --- p.160 / Appendix E An Alternative to Completion Time Variance --- p.167 / Bibliography --- p.169
172

Public inputs, unemployment and welfare under tariff and quota policies.

January 2002 (has links)
Leung Ping-Fai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-64). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Table of Content --- p.iv / List of Appendices --- p.v / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Literature Review --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1 --- Public Goods and Taxation --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2 --- Public Goods as Intermediate Goods --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3 --- Wage Differentials and Unemployment --- p.18 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- The Basic Model and Effects of Public Inputs --- p.22 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- "Public Inputs, Financing Constraints and National Welfare: The Tariff Case" --- p.30 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- "Public Inputs, Financing Constraints and National Welfare: The Quota Case" --- p.43 / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Concluding Remarks --- p.55 / Chapter Chapter 7. --- Appendices --- p.57 / References --- p.62
173

Scheduling the assembly process with uncertain material arrivals.

January 1998 (has links)
by Cheung Chit-Cheung, Gavin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-77). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgment --- p.ii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Motivation --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2 --- Problem Description --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3 --- Contributions --- p.6 / Chapter 1.4 --- Thesis Organization --- p.6 / Chapter 2 --- Problem Formulation and Solution Approaches --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Mathematical Modeling --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Transformation of Problem --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3 --- Problem Analysis --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Optimality Criteria --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Heuristic Solutions --- p.15 / Chapter 2.4 --- Literatures Review on Single-Machine Scheduling --- p.18 / Chapter 3 --- Discussion of Some Special Cases --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1 --- Two Operations --- p.22 / Chapter 3.2 --- Identical Distributions --- p.24 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Error Bound of LPTF - Maximum Distribution Approach --- p.27 / Chapter 3.3 --- Large Initial Time and Special Processing Times Structure --- p.29 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Application of SVF to Exponential Distribution --- p.34 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Error Bound of SVF 一 Switching Processing Times Approach --- p.37 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Extended Error Bound Analysis --- p.41 / Chapter 4 --- Heuristics to Solve the General Problems --- p.47 / Chapter 4.1 --- Level 1 - PIPF and LPTF Rules --- p.48 / Chapter 4.2 --- Level 2 - Adjacent Pair wise Interchange --- p.51 / Chapter 4.3 --- Computational Complexity --- p.53 / Chapter 5 --- Experimental Results --- p.54 / Chapter 5.1 --- Design of Experiments --- p.54 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Design of Problem Parameters --- p.55 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Evaluation Methods --- p.57 / Chapter 5.2 --- Results Analysis --- p.59 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Evaluation for Problems with Small Size --- p.60 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Evaluation for Problems with Large Size --- p.63 / Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.67 / Chapter 6.1 --- Summary --- p.67 / Chapter 6.2 --- Future Extension --- p.68 / Appendix --- p.69 / Chapter A --- Crossing Point of Normal Density Functions --- p.69 / Chapter B --- Probaiblity Distributions --- p.73 / Chapter B.1 --- Uniform Distribution --- p.73 / Chapter B.2 --- Exponential Distribution --- p.74 / Chapter B.3 --- Normal Distribution --- p.74 / Bibliography --- p.75
174

Theoretical and numerical study on continuous-time mean-variance optimal strategies. / Theoretical & numerical study on continuous-time mean-variance optimal strategies

January 2006 (has links)
Li Yan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-88). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Markowitz´ةs Single-Period Mean-Variance Model --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2 --- Discrete-Time Mean-Variance Problem --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Optimal Buy-and-Hold Policy --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Optimal Rolling Markowitz Policy --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Multi-Period Mean-Variance Optimal Policy --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3 --- Continuous-Time Market --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Optimal Unconstrained Policy --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Bankruptcy Prohibited Optimal Policy --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- No-Shorting Optimal Policy --- p.17 / Chapter 2.4 --- Continuously Rebalancing Optimal Policy --- p.18 / Chapter 3 --- Discretized Continuous-Time Optimal Policies --- p.20 / Chapter 3.1 --- Problem Setup --- p.21 / Chapter 3.2 --- Unconstrained Problem --- p.25 / Chapter 3.3 --- Problem with No-shorting Constraint --- p.31 / Chapter 3.4 --- Problem with No-Bankruptcy Constraint --- p.34 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Quasi No-Bankruptcy Problem --- p.36 / Chapter 3.5 --- Stability of the Simulation --- p.38 / Chapter 3.6 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.41 / Chapter 4 --- Performance of Continuous-Time M-V Optimal Policies --- p.43 / Chapter 4.1 --- Measures of the Performance by Probabilities --- p.45 / Chapter 4.2 --- Performance of the Optimal Mean-Variance Portfolio --- p.51 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Target-Hitting Probability --- p.51 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Cut-Off Probability --- p.53 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Target-Hitting-before-Cut-Off Probability --- p.58 / Chapter 4.3 --- Numerical Evaluations of Probabilities for Discrete-Time Market --- p.63 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Simulation on Target-Hitting Probability --- p.64 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Simulation on Zero-Hitting Probability --- p.66 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Simulation on Target-Hitting-before-Bankruptcy Probability --- p.67 / Chapter 4.4 --- Policy Comparison --- p.68 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Profile of the Probabilities --- p.70 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Impact of z on the Probabilities --- p.72 / Chapter 4.5 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.74 / Chapter 5 --- Empirical Analysis --- p.75 / Chapter 5.1 --- Experiment Description and Parameter Estimation --- p.76 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Introduction of the Data --- p.76 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Experiment Description --- p.77 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Parameter Estimation --- p.79 / Chapter 5.2 --- Empirical Results and Analysis --- p.80 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Performance Indicator --- p.80 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Experimental Results and Analysis --- p.81 / Chapter 5.3 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.83 / Chapter 6 --- Summary --- p.84 / Bibliography --- p.87
175

Budget-constrained sequential auctions with risk-averse buyers.

January 2006 (has links)
Chan Yiu Wing. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-44). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.11 / 摘要 --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Reviews of Existing Models --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Second Price Sealed-bid Auction --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- First Price Sealed-bid Auction --- p.6 / Chapter 2.3 --- Revenue Equivalence Principle --- p.6 / Chapter 2.4 --- Risk-Averse Bidders --- p.7 / Chapter 2.5 --- Budget Constraints --- p.7 / Chapter 2.6 --- Budget-Constrained Sequential Auction with --- p.9 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- The Model --- p.11 / Chapter 3.1 --- Model´ةs Background --- p.11 / Chapter 3.2 --- Auction´ة s Rules… --- p.13 / Chapter 3.3 --- Critical Values --- p.17 / Chapter 3.4 --- Revenues of the Sequential Auction --- p.18 / Chapter 3.5 --- Results --- p.19 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- More General Cases --- p.28 / Chapter 4.1 --- A possibility of winning both goods by a bidder --- p.28 / Chapter 4.2 --- The winning bid of the first stage auction is concealed --- p.36 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Conclusion --- p.39 / References --- p.41
176

Bayesian analysis of job search model with varying reservation wages.

January 2006 (has links)
Mak Ka-Yun. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-53). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Declaration --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.ii / Abstract --- p.iii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Model --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Prototypal Job Search Model --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- Job Search Model with Firing and Varying Reservation Wages --- p.8 / Chapter 2.3 --- Data and Likelihood --- p.13 / Chapter 2.4 --- Gibbs Sampling --- p.16 / Chapter 3 --- Example --- p.18 / Chapter 3.1 --- Data --- p.18 / Chapter 3.2 --- Complete-data Likelihood --- p.21 / Chapter 3.3 --- Prior Distribution --- p.22 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Natural Conjugate Prior --- p.23 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Proper Prior --- p.23 / Chapter 3.4 --- Posterior Distribution --- p.24 / Chapter 3.5 --- Setting Initial Values of Parameters --- p.25 / Chapter 3.6 --- Simulation Procedures --- p.27 / Chapter 3.6.1 --- Simulation Procedures for Natural Conjugate Prior Case --- p.28 / Chapter 3.6.2 --- Simulation Procedures for Proper Prior Case --- p.38 / Chapter 3.7 --- Output Analysis --- p.41 / Chapter 4 --- Discussion --- p.49 / References --- p.52
177

Statistical modelling of operational risk.

January 2006 (has links)
Yeung Yu Ming. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 35-38). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Risk Measures --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1 --- Extreme Value Thoery --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Estimating Excess Distributions --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Estimating Tails of Distributions --- p.9 / Chapter 2.4 --- VaR and ES --- p.10 / Chapter 3 --- Fitting VaR Time Series --- p.13 / Chapter 3.1 --- Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Models --- p.13 / Chapter 3.2 --- Regression Quantiles --- p.14 / Chapter 4 --- Analysis of Hang Seng Index --- p.16 / Chapter 4.1 --- Risk Measures --- p.20 / Chapter 4.2 --- Backtesting --- p.21 / Chapter 4.3 --- Expected Shortfall --- p.25 / Chapter 4.4 --- Forecasting VaR and ES --- p.26 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Regression Quantiles --- p.27 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- ARIMA Models --- p.28 / Chapter 5 --- Conclusion --- p.33 / References --- p.35
178

Study of the connection between an ohmic damping system and a dispersive dissipative system. / 歐姆阻尼系統與頻散耗散系統之連繫的研究 / Study of the connection between an ohmic damping system and a dispersive dissipative system. / Ou mu zu ni xi tong yu pin san hao san xi tong zhi lian xi de yan jiu

January 2006 (has links)
Kong Wai = 歐姆阻尼系統與頻散耗散系統之連繫的研究 / 江偉. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-73). / Text in English; abstracts in English and Chinese. / Kong Wai = Ou mu zu ni xi tong yu pin san hao san xi tong zhi lian xi de yan jiu / Jiang Wei. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Review of ohmic systems and dispersive systems --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Damped ohmic systems --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Equations of motion --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Normal modes --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Bilinear mapping and general solutions --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Dissipative dispersive system --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Matrix representation --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Bilinear mapping and metric tensor --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Generalization to M relaxation frequencies --- p.16 / Chapter 3 --- Relation between dispersive and ohmic systems --- p.17 / Chapter 4 --- Odd dimension problem --- p.22 / Chapter 4.1 --- The ohmic system --- p.22 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Fast mode --- p.22 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- e = 0 --- p.24 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- e→ 0 --- p.25 / Chapter 4.2 --- The dispersive system --- p.27 / Chapter 4.3 --- Connections in odd-dimensional case --- p.30 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- "Odd-dimensional cases, e = 0, ₁ت2= ´ؤi∞" --- p.30 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- "Limiting cases, e →0" --- p.31 / Chapter 4.4 --- Eigenvalues --- p.32 / Chapter 4.5 --- Conclusion --- p.34 / Chapter 5 --- Fluctuation-dissipation theorem --- p.35 / Chapter 5.1 --- FDT for a single damped oscillator --- p.35 / Chapter 5.2 --- FDT for two coupled ohmic oscillators --- p.38 / Chapter 5.3 --- Two couple damped oscillators in different baths --- p.40 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Case I: Symmetric and T1 = T2 --- p.41 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Case II: Symmetric and η2 = 0 --- p.42 / Chapter 5.3.3 --- Case III: Asymmetric and T1 = T2 --- p.44 / Chapter 5.3.4 --- Case IV: Asymmetric and η2 = 0 --- p.46 / Chapter 5.3.5 --- Discussion --- p.47 / Chapter 6 --- Pseudo-Boltzman distribution --- p.48 / Chapter 6.1 --- Fokker´ؤPlanck equation --- p.48 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Single damped oscillator --- p.48 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Two coupled damped oscillators --- p.50 / Chapter 6.2 --- Path integral method --- p.55 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Single damped oscillator --- p.55 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- N coupled oscillators --- p.56 / Chapter 7 --- Energy stored in a dispersive system --- p.58 / Chapter 7.1 --- Correlations --- p.59 / Chapter 7.2 --- One-one mapping for N = 2 --- p.61 / Chapter 7.3 --- One-one mapping for N = 3 --- p.64 / Chapter 8 --- Conclusion --- p.70 / Bibliography --- p.72 / Chapter A --- Equipartition theorem --- p.74 / Chapter B --- General fluctuation-dissipation theorem --- p.76 / Chapter C --- Case I: Symmetric and T1 = T2 --- p.80 / Chapter D --- Fokker´ؤPlanck equation - Single damped oscillator --- p.82 / Chapter E --- Fokker-Planck equation - Two coupled damped oscillators --- p.86 / Chapter F --- Path integral method - Single damped oscillator --- p.88 / Chapter G --- Path integral method - N coupled oscillators --- p.90 / Chapter H --- Correlation of χ1χ1 --- p.94 / Chapter I --- Conditions for a dissipative dispersive system --- p.96 / Chapter J --- Solution of an ohmic system --- p.98
179

An analysis of a respiratory control model under exercise conditions

Strippoli, Carlo January 2010 (has links)
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
180

Policy formulation for a cigarette manufacturing company : a dynamic system simulation

Macropulos, George Manuel January 2011 (has links)
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries

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