Infrastructure investment: supporting better decisions

Real options for investment decisions in mobile TV infrastructure

This work presents a strategic investment framework for mobile TV infrastructure. We address the question of whether an operator should enter the mobile TV market and, if yes, when to do so. We consider a realistic setting where the mobile TV network is mainly relying on a DVB infrastructure whose coverage can be complemented by the cellular network. As several actors may be involved in this se...

QSec: Supporting Security Decisions on an IT Infrastructure

A global vulnerability of an IT infrastructure is a set of vulnerabilities in its nodes that enables a sequence of attacks where an agent acquires the privileges that each attack requires as a result of the previous attacks in the sequence. This paper presents QSec, a tool to support decision on the infrastructure security that queries a database with information on global vulnerabilities and t...

Men's Reproductive Investment Decisions

Using questionnaire data completed by 170 men, we examine variation in paternal investment in relation to the trade-off between mating and parenting. We found that as men's self-perceived mate value increases, so does their mating effort, and in turn, as mating effort increases, paternal investment decreases. This study also simultaneously examined the influence on parental investment of men's ...

Modeling Ethanol Investment Decisions

Recently the support of biofuel production has been a politically sensitive topic. Politicians have pushed for support for fuel ethanol production as an environmentally friendly alternative to imported oil, as well as a way to boost farm profits and improve rural livelihoods. Several government policies actively promote ethanol production via tax incentives and mandates, and these policies are ...

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