• Extensions to Chen's Minimizing Equal Mass Parallelogram Solutions 

      Mansur, Abdalla M.; Offin, Daniel C.; Arsie, Alessandro (Mathematical Society of the Rep. of China, 2017)
      In this paper, we study the extension of the minimizing equal mass parallelogram solutions which was derived by Chen in 2001 [2]. Chen's solution was minimizing for one quarter of the period [0; T], where numerical integration ...
    • Financial planning in the public sector and the newsvendor problem 

      Brimberg, Jack; Mansur, Abdalla M.; El Refae, Ghaleb A. (Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade, 2018)
      The purpose of this paper is to study the phenomenon of lapsed funding that occurs within the public sector using the framework of the Newsvendor Problem. Under this framework, we observe that lapsed funding is a natural ...