Discover the concept of utility in microeconomics, exploring its origins, types, and applications to analyze consumer ...

The Rhode Island Department of Public Utilities (DPU) is in the midst of an important series of hearings regarding the future of the state’s electric grid. The goals are three-fold: Control the ...

Utility functions offer a means to encode objectives and preferences in investor portfolios. The functions allow one to place a score on outcomes and then identify optimal portfolios by maximizing ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2016), pp. 146-173 (28 pages) This paper investigates the problem of maximizing expected terminal utility in a (generically incomplete) ...

Most developers have their own sets of frequently used utility functions, but they aren't properly organized or documented. The Commons Lang project's goal is to provide a uniform, tested, and ...