… Varieties and Lattices In this section, we gather examples of varieties of regular cost functions
… to see how the identification of regular languages with cost functions extends to varieties. …

… decisions or production plan, the variety of which is unlimited, … cost function and distance
function for the level sets of the production function to the cost function and distance function of …

… cost function for producing a given agricultural commodity ought to be much closer to the
classical smooth variety … individual cost functions, and we are right back to a single cost function…

… effort for measuring variety complexity. In section 2 we explain the significance of variety
complexity in … The summary of our previous effort in capturing the cost and importance of variety …

One important decision firms must make is to select the product line (characteristics and number
of products) to offer consumers. This paper explores the effect of the interaction between …

… likelihood estimates of a wide variety of stochastic frontier production and cost functions.
The paper is divided into sections. Section 2 describes the stochastic frontier production …

… critical points on the variety. Moreover, if we add a natural regularization term to the cost
function, we can guarantee that any stationary point of the regularized cost is a local minimum …

… expensive cost functions. Bayesian optimization employs the Bayesian technique of setting
a prior over the objective function and combining it with evidence to get a posterior function. …

… on the assumptions concerning the underlying R&D-cost functions. Still, it is most probable
… The cost function for R&D is the same for both firms and is described by K(c i )+G(δ i ) with K…

… For SCAD (and all of the piecewise cost functions we consider), the activation function can
be determined individually for each region, paying careful attention to the ranges of the inputs …