Reducing Costs by Changing Behavior—Really?

Reducing Product Costs by Efficient Product Development

The challenges of the marketplace are met by product developers in two ways: development of innovative products and reducing product costs. Cost reduction alone is not a substitute for innovation. Cost-oriented product development is systematical engineering work, which requires an interdisciplinary approach, and needs to be efficient and effective. The costs that are of interest here are those...

Reducing Misclassification Costs

We explore algorithms for learning classification procedures that attempt to minimize the cost of misclassifying examples. First, we consider inductive learning of classification rules. The Reduced Cost Ordering algorithm, a new method for creating a decision list (i.e., an ordered set of rules) is described and compared to a variety of inductive learning approaches. Next, we describe approache...

Reducing Transcription Costs

Reducing Labor Costs: Choosing

Reducing Electronic Multiplexing Costs in Sonet/wdm Rings with Dynamically Changing Traac 1

In this paper we consider traac grooming in WDM/SONET ring networks when the ooered traac is characterized by a set of traac matrices. Our objective is to minimize the cost of electronic Add/Drop Multiplexers (ADMs) in the network, while being able to support any ooered traac matrix in a rearrangeably non-blocking manner. We provide several methods for reducing the required number of ADMs for a...