Balancing Objectives? Just Transition in National Recovery and Resilience Plans

Balancing Protection and Resilience

Balancing Incentive Compensation Plans

P ho to b y C O LI N A N D E R S O N /T he I m ag e B an k M any executives of medical technology companies count on incentive compensation plans to align their sales representatives’ goals with the goals of the company, but this oftentimes isn’t the result. Some very common types of incentive plans, when coupled with poorly balanced sales territories, can actually hinder a medtech company’s ab...

Just in Time Load Balancing

Leveraging Loop Level Parallelism (LLP) is one of the most attractive techniques for improving program performance on emerging multi-cores. Ordinary programs contain a large amount of parallel and DOALL loops, however emerging multi-core designs feature (a) a rapid increase in the number of on-chip cores and (b) the ways such cores share on-chip resources such as pipeline and memory hierarchy, ...

Response Adaptive Designs for Balancing Complex Objectives

Response adaptive designs for problems involving multiple conflicting goals are considered. The often referenced clinical trial dilemma of trying to determine the better of two independent Bernoulli populations while simultaneously increasing successful results during the trial is used. In evaluating the continuum of performance tradeoffs between the two objectives it is shown that only minor d...

Balancing Marketing and Manufacturing Objectives in Product Line Design

The product development process involves communication and compromise among interacting and often competing objectives from marketing, design, and manufacturing perspectives. Methods for negotiating these perspectives play an important role in the process. For example, design for manufacturing (DFM) analyses aim to incorporate manufacturing requirements into product design decision making to re...