We motivate and introduce an extension of the well-known cumulative constraint which deals with time and volume dependent cost of resources. Our research is primarily interested in scheduling problems under time and volume variable electricity costs, but the constraint equally applies to manpower scheduling when hourly rates differ over time and/or extra personnel incur higher hourly rates. We ...

In cloud computing, providing an optimal resource to user becomes more and more important. Cloud computing users can access the pool of computing resources through internet. Cloud providers are charge for these computing resources based on cloud resource usage. The provided resource plans are reservation and on demand. The computing resources are provisioned by cloud resource provisioning model...

BACKGROUND Decreasing hospital length of stay, and so freeing up hospital beds, represents an important cost saving which is often used in economic evaluations. The savings need to be accurately quantified in order to make optimal health care resource allocation decisions. Traditionally the accounting cost of a bed is used. We argue instead that the economic cost of a bed day is the better valu...

Recently firms have been reconsidering offshoring decisions, and reshoring activities back from offshore locations to domestic locations. The aim of this paper is develop a framework for understanding location governance choice in the decision. Employing eclectic paradigm, resource-based view transaction cost economics as theoretical basis, research highlights value integrating location-specifi...

The provided resources synergised with existing resources such as social capital and information demand, resulting in changes to resource allocation and social processes, such as economic resource reallocation, information sharing, personal agency, and social support. These changes impacted areas such as employment, education, transportation and domestic violence, leading to improved individual...

Abstract The Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC) of India has been calculating and publishing the Cost Index (CCI), monthly, since 1998. cost variations interrogate different kinds projects such as roads, power plants, buildings, industrial structures, railways bridges. success rate completion construction project is diminished due to lack prediction knowledge in CCI. Predicting CC...

BACKGROUND Immigrants to the U.S. are required to undergo overseas screening for tuberculosis (TB), but the value of evaluation and treatment following entry to the U.S. is not well understood. We determined the cost-effectiveness of domestic follow-up of immigrants identified as tuberculosis suspects through overseas screening. METHODS Using a stochastic simulation for tuberculosis reactivat...

Foreign aid recipient fiscal response in developing countries is studied using utility/welfare maximization principle. The underlying assumption of this function (utility/welfare can be maximized by narrowing the deviations of the actual values from their desired values subject to the constraints of finance) doesn’t capture the interplay between project aid inflows and the adjustment process of...

Foreign aid recipient fiscal response in developing countries is studied using utility/welfare maximization principle. The underlying assumption of this function (utility/welfare can be maximized by narrowing the deviations of the actual values from their desired values subject to the constraints of finance) doesn’t capture the interplay between project aid inflows and the adjustment process of...