Compartmentalization, Resource Allocation, and Wood Quality

Consumer-Resource Dynamics: Quantity, Quality, and Allocation

BACKGROUND The dominant paradigm for modeling the complexities of interacting populations and food webs is a system of coupled ordinary differential equations in which the state of each species, population, or functional trophic group is represented by an aggregated numbers-density or biomass-density variable. Here, using the metaphysiological approach to model consumer-resource interactions, w...

Quality of Equilibria in Resource Allocation Games

ISBN: 978-90-365-4127-5 Reource Alcation am es Jasper de Jng In situations where multiple parties are involved, local or selfish decisions result in outcomes that rarely align with what is best for society. In order to evaluate the quality of the resulting outcomes, we first need to predict which outcomes can occur. Game theory offers answers to this question, the Nash equilibrium being the mos...

Hospital competition, resource allocation and quality of care

BACKGROUND A variety of approaches have been used to contain escalating hospital costs. One approach is intensifying price competition. The increase in price based competition, which changes the incentives hospitals face, coupled with the fact that consumers can more easily evaluate the quality of hotel services compared with the quality of clinical care, may lead hospitals to allocate more res...

Resource Allocation and Quality of Service for Distributed Multimedia Applications

Economic and Effectiveness Evaluation Analysis of Some Resource Allocation Procedures

Review of theoretical models for cost-effectiveness and of procedures currently being used by different levels of decision makers to evaluate the projects or alternatives is the main objective of this article. To come to some conclusion that which theoretical model would be more effective to be applied for allocating the limited resources among different projects. the performance evaluation pro...