How to Graph a Function in Excel. A mathematical function is a formula that takes an input, x, applies a set of calculations to it, and produces an output called y. By calculating a function at a ...

We develop a simple method for identifying and estimating cost functions in the presence of endogenous and unobserved quality. Using this method, we estimate that a quality-adjusted cost function for ...

This paper deals with a new flexible job-shop scheduling problem in which the objective function to be minimised is the sum of the earliness and tardiness costs of the jobs and the costs of the ...