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    • A Satisficing DEA Model to Measure the Customer-based Brand Equity 

      Vincent, Charles; Zavala, Jorge (CENTRUM PublishingPE, 2015)
      Ever since the inception of brand values, these have become a benchmark for many data-driven strategies, eventually providing a basis for vertical/horizontal integrations, as well. In recent decades, brands have become ...
    • A translation invariant pure DEA model 

      Vincent, Charles; Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna (CENTRUM PublishingPE, 2015)
      This short communication complements the DEA model proposed by Lovell and Pastor (Eur. J. Oper. Res. 118 (1999), 46-51), by incorporating both positive and negative criteria in the model. As such, we propose a DEA model, ...
    • Joint chance-constrained reliability optimization with general form of distributions 

      Vincent, Charles; Islam Ansari, Saifu; Khodabakhshi, Mohammad (CENTRUM PublishingPE, 2014)
      Probabilistic or stochastic programming is a framework for modeling optimization problems that involve uncertainty. Stochastic programming models arise as reformulations or extensions of reliability optimization problems ...
    • Measuring the Performance of a Dehydration Plant of Apples 

      Sánchez Ramírez, Rodrigo Antonio; Vincent, Charles; González Araya, Marcela; Paliza, Juan Carlos (CENTRUM PublishingPE, 2015)
      Given the importance of the Chilean dried-fruit market and the characteristics of the industrial process of dehydration, it becomes imperative for companies to measure the efficiency of their production processes in order ...
    • The Right To Be Forgotten – Is Privacy Sold Out in the Big Data Age? 

      Vincent, Charles; Tavana, Madjid; Iona Gherman,Tatiana (CENTRUM PublishingPE, 2014)
      The potential of big data has exceeded the expectations of most organizations. However, despite its vast importance and application, some important aspects of big data remain the subject of debate. One of the most sensitive ...