Scheduling Microscopy Assets

Scheduling inspection and renewal of large infrastructure assets

A decision framework is introduced to assist municipal engineers and planners to optimize decisions regarding the renewal of large infrastructure assets such as water transmission pipes, trunk sewers, or other assets with high costs of failure, inspection, and condition assessment. The proposed decision framework identifies a need for immediate intervention or, alternatively, enables optimizati...

Maintenance scheduling of geographically distributed assets with prognostics information

Maintenance scheduling for high value assets has been studied for decades and is still a crucial area of research with new technological advancements. The main dilemma of maintenance scheduling is to avoid failures while preventing unnecessary maintenance. The technological advancements in real time monitoring and computational science make tracking asset health and forecasting asset failures p...

Intangible Assets

Intangible assets are a very economically significant asset class yet are largely excluded by accounting conventions from corporate balance sheets. Ownership (or control) of intangible assets can allow firms to differentiate their offerings to customers and establish some degree of competitive advantage. However, intangibles do not, apart from a few cases of licensing, generate value on their o...

Confidential Assets

Bitcoin is an online distributed ledger in which coins are distributed according to the unspent transaction output (UTXO) set, and transactions describe changes to this set. Every UTXO has associated to it an amount and signature verification key, representing the quantity that can be spent and the entity authorized to do so, respectively. Because the ledger is distributed and publicly verifiab...

On the Integrated Scheduling of Hardkill and Softkill Assets Using Dynamic Programming