Part one in a two-part series. The second par will run in the September issue of OGFJ. Mark J. Kaiser and Brian F. Snyder, Center for Energy Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La.

When businesses produce a product, they encounter both fixed and variable costs. While fixed costs remain the same regardless of the number of products produced, variable costs change. To determine ...

For an inventory model with a central warehouse that supplies two satellite ware-houses an approximation of the cost function by upper and lower bounds is presented under the assumption that the ...

The difference between predicted and expected values when training a machine learning model. Also called a "loss function," the cost function is not about dollars. It is the difference between the ...