This research paper adapts intelligent water drops (IWD) algorithm to solve the discrete timecost-quality trade-off problem (DTCQTP) in software projects which is never solved before by this algorithm. Project manager's goal is getting an optimal allocation of time, cost and quality of each task/activity in the software project such that total time and cost of the project is minimized while pro...

Abstract We propose testing asset pricing models using multihorizon returns (MHRs). MHRs effectively generate a new set of test assets that is endogenous to the model and identifies broad possible conditional misspecifications. apply MHR-based prominent linear factor show these typically do poor job longer-horizon returns, with errors are similar in magnitude risk premiums they were designed ex...

We use the HOS model of international trade to find a link between trading costs and pattern of trade, not just its effect on volume of trade. We prove that higher trading costs in labor-abundant countries will restrict volume of world trade by working against factor endowment bias and conversely for the capital-abundant nation. Asymmetric trading cost between goods may have paradoxical output ...

This paper presents an attempt at an early investigation or exploration of the trade-off between MIPS cost and memory cost. The cost model is an approximation based on knowledge of the application behavior and algorithm inner loop costs for the hardware architecture, which consists of a control processor and a SIMD processor. The application is an H.264 video decoder. Various memory configurati...