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T. G. Yeung and P. D. , France e-mail: thomas.yeung@emn.fr Thomas Yeung is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Automatic Control at the Ecole des Mines de Nantes. He is also a member of the Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes (IRCCyN Research Lab) He received his PhS. all in industrial engineering from the University of Arkansas. He is a member of INFORMS and IIE, His research has appeared in Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, and Military Operations Research. His research interests include real options analysis and stochastic optimization applied to maintenance optimization and finance