This paper provides a theoretical framework for explaining counterintuitive behaviors of a university choosing an unfavorable consequence in the long term while attempting to optimally allocate its resources in the short term. Our analysis demonstrates the process through which conflicting interests among different departments within an institution may lead to an internal allocation arrangement...

Analysing cooperative provision of a global public good such as climate protection, we explore the relationship between equitable burden sharing on the one hand and core stability on the other hand. To assess the size of the burden which a public good contribution entails for a country, we make use of a specific measure based on Moulin (1987). In particular, we show that a Pareto-optimal alloca...

We discuss implications of the fundamental plane parameters of clusters of galaxies derived from combined optical and X–ray data of a sample of 78 nearby clusters. In particular, we investigate the dependence of these parameters on the dynamical state of the cluster. We introduce a new concept of allocation of the fundamental plane of clusters derived from their intrinsic morphological properti...

Are efficiency considerations important for understanding differences in the development of institutions? We model institutional quality as the degree to which obligations associated with exchanging capital can be enforced. Establishing a positive level of enforcement requires an aggregate investment of capital that is no longer available for production. When capital endowments are more unequal...

In this study, we aimed to assess the solution quality for location-allocation problems from facilities generated by the software TransCAD®, a Geographic Information System for Transportation (GIS-T). Such facilities were obtained after using two routines together: Facility Location and Transportation Problem, when compared with optimal solutions from exact mathematical models, based on Mixed I...

We present a decentralized market-based approach to resource allocation in a heterogeneous overlay network. This resource allocation strategy dynamically assigns resources in an overlay network to requests for service based on current system utilization, thus enabling the system to accommodate fluctuating demand for its resources. Our approach is based on a mathematical model of this resource a...

Caching and rate allocation are two promising approaches to support video streaming over wireless network. However, existing rate allocation designs do not fully exploit the advantages of the two approaches. This paper investigates the problem of cache-enabled QoE-driven video rate allocation problem. We establish a mathematical model for this problem, and point out that it is difficult to solv...

The problem of sample allocation in multipurpose surveys is complicated by the fact that an efficient allocation for some estimates may be inefficient for others. There may also be precision goals that must be met for certain estimates plus constraints on costs and minimum sample sizes for strata to permit variance estimation. These requirements lead to formulating the allocation problem as one...

As opposed to the classical voting system (one person one decision one vote) a new voting system is deÞned where agents are endowed with a given number of votes that can be distributed freely between a prearranged number of issues that have to be approved or dismissed. Its essence relies on allowing voters to express the intensity of their preferences in a simple and applicable manner. From a m...