We consider the propagation of a contagion process (“epidemic”) on a network and study the problem of dynamically allocating a fixed curing budget to the nodes of the graph, at each time instant. We provide a dynamic policy for the rapid containment of a contagion process modeled as an SIS epidemic on a bounded degree undirected graph with n nodes. We show that if the budget r of curing resourc...

The budget is the key means for effecting policy in democracies, yet its preparation is typically an opaque and arcane process. Participatory budgeting is making inroads in municipalities, but is usually limited to a small fraction of the total budget as its methods do not scale: They cannot handle quantitative budget items nor hierarchical budget construction. Here we apply the Condorcet princ...

This paper presents a mechanism for execution-overrun management in real-time systems. It is defined as the time budget a faulty task can use in case of execution overrun without compromising the real-time constraints of all the tasks in the system. This mechanism enables to cope with execution overrun before a deadline miss. Budget use the allowance notion which depends on free resources. We s...

Purpose A survey is here systematically conducted to analyse auditors’ perceptions of dysfunctional auditing behaviour (DAB). As a result many accounting scandals and litigations faced by audit firms, this paper aims assess whether factors leading DAB are embedded in firms’ practices. Design/methodology/approach The sample used study comprises auditors at all levels employment with the big four...