Operations Research Center Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • Methods for Allocating Urban Emergency Units 

      Chaiken, Jan M.; Larson, Richard C., 1943- (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 ...

    • A New M. I.T. Graduate Course: Analysis of Urban Service Systems 

      Larson, Richard C., 1943- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1971-06)
      Abstract not available

    • Risk Independence and Multiattributed Utility Functions 

      Keeney, Ralph L. (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 ...