In this article we have adapted productivity analysis to the case of a cost model using a quadratic cost function and discrete data. The main theoretical result is a productivity index that can be ...

This paper deals with scheduling n jobs on a single machine in order to minimize the weighted sum of squared waiting times of the jobs. We present a powerful decomposition mechanism, based on a ...

Inverse optimal control (IOC) is an advanced methodological framework that seeks to deduce the underlying cost or reward functions based solely on the observation of optimal behaviour. Traditionally, ...