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Recent Publications by Sten A. Thore 

Technology Commercialization: DEA and Related Analytical Methods for Evaluating the Use and Implementation of Technical Innovation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston/Dordrecht/London 2002, pp. xv + 409. (Edited volume.)

"Life Cycle Activity Analysis: Logistics and Environmental Policies for Bottled Water in Portugal," OR Spektrum, Vol. 23, 2001, pp. 159-182. (With F. Freire and P. Ferrão.)

 "Economies of Scale in the Digital Industry,"  in Knowledge for Inclusive Development, editors P. Conceição, D. Gibson, M. Heitor, G. Sirilli and F. Veloso, Quorum Books, Westport, Conn.2001

"Life Cycle Activity Analysis Applied to the Portuguese Used Tire Market," SAE Technical Paper Series, 2000-01-1507, Society of Automotive Engineers, Warrandale, PA, 2000, pp. 1-9. (With F. Freire, P. Ferrão and C. Reis.)

"IC2 Fellow Offers ‘Talking Points’", IC2 Insider, The University of Texas at Austin, Vol.1, No.7, 1999, pp. 2-3.

"The Economics of the Information Age: Industrial Turmoil and Rapid Evolution," (based on an Inaugural lecture at the Institute Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, March 18, 1997), in 21st Century Economics: New Perspectives of Political Economy for a Changing World, edited by W.E. Halal and K.B. Taylor, St. Martin´s Press, New York 1999.

 "Strong legacies and weak markets: Bulgarian state-owned enterprises during early transition," American Sociological Review, Vol. 63:4, August 1998, pp. 599 – 617.  (With K. I. Spenner, O. O. Suhomlinova, K. Land and D. Jones).

"Innovation in an Industry Network: Budding, Cross-Fertilization, and Creative Destruction," in Operations Research: Methods, Models and Applications, edited by J.E. Aronson and S. Zionts, honoring Gerald L. Thompson on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Quorum Books, Westport, Connecticut, 1998, pp. 179-200.

"The Economic and Social Performance of Nations: Efficiency and Returns to Scale", Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Vol. 31, 1997, pp. 191 – 204 (With B. Golany).

"The Competitiveness of Nations," in W.W. Cooper, S. Thore, D. Gibson and F. Phillips, editors, IMPACT: How IC2 Research Affects Public Policy and Business Markets. A Volume Honoring George Kozmetsky's Receipt of the National Medal of Technology, Greenwood Publishing., Westport , Connecticut, 1997, pp. 189-208. (With B. Golany.)

"Restricted Best Practice Selection in DEA: An Overview with a Case Study Evaluating the Socio-Economic Performance of Nations," The Annals of Operations Research, special issue on Data Envelopment Analysis edited by L. M. Seiford and A.Y. Lewin, Vol. 73, pp. 117-140, 1997. (With B. Golany.)

" Preface to Topics in Computational Economics," Annals of Operations Research, special issue on Computational Economics, edited by G. L. Thompson and S. Thore, Vol. 68, 1996, pp. i - x. (With G.L. Thompson.)

"The Time Path of the Marginal Cost of Oil: The Turning Point and the Subsequent Upward Drift," The Annals of Operations Research, special issue on Computational Economics, edited by G. L. Thompson and S. Thore, Vol. 68, 1996, pp. 409-422. (With S.L.McDonald, R. Gonzalez, N.P.Ritchey, T.W. Ruefli, and K.K. Sinha.)

"Exchanging Heterogeneous Goods via Saled Bid Auctions and Transportation Systems," Annals of Operations Research, special issue on Computational Economics, editors G.L. Thompson and S. Thore, Volume 68, 1996, pp. 181-208. (With G.L. Thompson.)

"Economies of Scale, Emerging Patterns, and Self-Organization in the U.S. Computer Industry: An Empirical Investigation Using Data Envelopment Analysis," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 6, No.2, 1996, pp. 199-216.

"DEA and the Management of the Product Cycle: the U.S. Computer Industry," Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 23, No.4, 1996, pp. 341-356. (With F. Phillips,T.W. Ruefli, and P. Yue.)

"Spatial Market Policy Modeling with Goal Targets," Operations Research, Vol. 44, No.2, 1996, pp. 393- 406. (With A. Nagurney and J. Pan.)

"Two-stage DEA under uncertainty", in Ole Bent Olesen, Some Recent Studies and Extension of Methods for Measuring Technical Efficiency, Universitas Othiniensis, the University of Odense, Odense 1995. (With O.B. Olesen.)

The Diversity, Complexity, and Evolution of High Tech Capitalism, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1995. Pp. 203. Currently published on the Internet, see http://www.ic2.org/pubs/sten.pdf

"DEA of Financial Statements Data: the U.S. Computer Industry," The Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol.2, 1994, pp. 229-248. (With G. Kozmetsky and F. Phillips.)

"The Modeling and Computation of Generalized Goal Programming Problems," in New Directions in Computational Economics, editors W. W. Cooper and A.B. Whinston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston 1994, pp. 95-120. (With A. Nagurney and J. Pan.)

"Productive Efficiency under Capitalism and State Socialism: An Empirical Inquiry Using Chance-Constrained Data Envelopment Analysis," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 46, 1994, pp. 139-152. (With K.C. Land and C.A.K. Lovell.)

"Cost Effectiveness and Competitiveness in the Computer Industry: a New Metric," Technology Knowledge Activities, Vol.1, No.2, Fall 1993, pp. 1-10.

"Chance-Constrained Data Envelopment Analysis," Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol. 14, 1993, pp. 541-554. (With K.C. Land and C.A.K. Lovell.)

"Productive Efficiency under Capitalism and State Socialism: The Chance-Constrained Programming Approach," in P. Pestieau, editor, Public Finance in a World of Transition, Proceedings of the 47th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, St. Petersburg 1991, supplement to Public Finance, Vol.47, 1992, pp. 109-121. (With K.C. Land and C.A.K. Lovell.)

"Generalized Goal Programming and Variational Inequalities," Operations Research Letters, Vol.12, No.4., 1992, pp. 217-226. (With A. Nagurney and J. Pan.)

Computational Economics: Economic Modeling with Optimization Software, The Scientific Press, South San Francisco, Calif. 1991 (With G.L Thompson). With a 3.5" or a 5 1/4" disk.

"Economic Disequilibrium by Mathematical Programming," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol.71, No.1, October 1991, pp.169-187. (With G.L. Thompson.)

Economic Logistics: The Optimization of Spatial and Sectoral Resource, Production, and Distribution Systems. With a chapter on Some Elements of Saddle Point Theory authored jointly with W.W. Cooper. Quorum Books, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Conn., 1991.

"Retraining in an Interdependent System of Labor Markets: A Network Analysis," European Journal of Operational Research 1990, Vol.44, pp. 349-356.

"Auctioned Quotas to Limit U.S. Imports," Journal of Petroleum Technology, Dec. 1989, pp. 1332-1334 (With S.L. McDonald.)

"A Constrained Least Squares Method for Estimating the Effects of an Unknown Monotonically Intervening Factor," Journal of Forecasting, 1989, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 369-379.