Multiagent resource allocation defines the issue of having to distribute a set of resources among a set of agents, aiming at a fair and efficient allocation. Resource allocation procedures can be evaluated with regard to properties such as budget balance and strategy-proofness. Designing a budget-balanced and strategy-proof allocation procedure that always provides a fair (namely, envyfree) and...

Sex allocation theory applied to hermaphrodites assumes that there is a trade off between the allocation of resources to male and female functions, within a fixed reproductive resource budget. Charnov's classic resource allocation model predicts a more female-biased sex allocation when competition among different sperm donors is low due to diminishing fitness returns for male investment. By man...

The problem of repeated allocation of limited renewable service resources to distributed service centers is considered here. The objective is to assure a given Quality of Service expressed through percentage of demand which is satisfied during a specified time period. Resource requirements are not fully known at the time when a decision about the service resource distribution is taken. The prob...

We introduce a unified framework for the study of the utility and the energy efficiency of solutions to a large class of weighted max-min utility maximization problems in interferencecoupled wireless networks. In more detail, given a network utility maximization problem parameterized by a maximum power budget p̄ available to network elements, we define two functions that map the power budget p̄ t...

objectives: the present study aimed to provide an estimation of the current financial burden of renal transplantation therapy for insurance organisations.methods: an excel-based model was developed to determine the treatment costs of current clinical practice in renal transplantation therapy (rtt). inputs were derived from ministry of health and insurance organizations` database, hospital and p...

We provide in this paper a simple example of a dynamic stochastic imperfectly competitive economy in which introducing some distortive taxation increases both allocation efficiency and stabilization.  2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

performance budgeting has been an important theme of public expenditure management for decades. in the 1990s, however, a new wave of enthusiasm for performance budgeting began to sweep through governments. in recent years, however, the level of interest in organizational use of performance-based budgeting re-emerged with more details and support from researchers and practitioners. performance-b...

Motivated by allocation of cloud computing services, bandwidth and wireless spectrum in secondary network markets, we introduce a hierarchical auction model for network resource allocation. The Tier 1 provider owns all of the resource, who holds an auction in which the Tier 2 providers participate. Each of the Tier 2 providers then holds an auction to allocate the acquired resource among the Ti...

We propose a dynamic allocation procedure that increases power and efficiency when measuring an average treatment effect in fixed sample randomized trials with sequential allocation. Subjects arrive iteratively and are either randomized or paired via a matching criterion to a previously randomized subject and administered the alternate treatment. We develop estimators for the average treatment ...

the present study is an attempt towards remodeling cost, revenue and profit relationship within the network process. the previous models of data envelopment analysis (dea) have been too general in their scope and focused on the input and the output within a black box system, therefore they have not been able to measure various phases simultaneously within a network system. by using these models...