Existing theories and models in economics and transportation treat households’ decisions regarding allocation of time and income to activities as a resource-allocation optimization problem. Arguably, this stands in contrast with the dynamic nature of day-by-day activity-travel choices. Therefore, in the present paper we propose a different approach to model activity generation and allocation de...

The explosive growth of wireless network users and the existence of various wireless services have demanded high throughput as well as user’s quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees. In accordance with, this paper proposes a novel resource allocation scheme improving both the capability of QoS-provisioning for multiple users and the overall data throughput. Towards this, the modified resource alloc...

The multi-agent resource allocation problem is the negotiation of m resources among the n agents of a population, in order to maximize a social welfare function. Contrary to some former studies, the purpose is here neither to simply determine a socially optimal resource allocation nor to prove the existence of a transaction sequence leading to this optimum. The objective is to define the indivi...

In many embedded systems, such as imaging systems, the system has a single designated purpose, and same threads are executed repeatedly. Profiling thread behavior, allows the system to allocate each thread its resources in a way that improves overall system performance. We study an online resource allocation problem, where a resource manager simultaneously allocates resources (exploration), lea...

Efficient network provisioning mechanisms are essential to support service differentiation in the Internet. In this paper we propose a distributed provisioning architecture for intra-domain Quality of Service networks. We propose a new service model and we characterize the demand behavior of network’s users based on physically reasonable utility functions. This allows us to develop an efficient...

Ð What determines the allocation of publicly-provided goods to rural households in India? Although empirically driven this paper draws on the characteristics of India's institutional structure and the implications of existing literature for framing the answer to this question. We confront the main empirical implications drawn from this framework with a unique data set which brings together wide...

This paper presents an algorithm for task allocation in groups of homogeneous robots. The algorithm is based on vacancy chains, a resource distribution strategy common in human and animal societies. We define a class of task-allocation problems for which the vacancy chain algorithm is suitable and demonstrate how Reinforcement Learning can be used to make vacancy chains emerge in a group of Beh...

On a Wide Area Network (WAN), fragment allocation is a major issue in distributed database design since it concerns the overall performance of distributed database systems. Here we propose a simple and comprehensive model that reflects transaction behavior in distributed databases. Based on the model and transaction information, two heuristic algorithms are developed to find a near-optimal allo...

In this paper we propose one allocation strategy and two strategies for sparse regenerator placement in translucent optical networks, namely Most Used Regenerator Placement (MURP) and Most Simultaneous Used Regenerator Placement (MSURP). The novel regenerators placement algorithms are compared with other ones presented in literature. They are tested on the proposed regenerator allocation algori...