In this paper we introduce an architecture for online database services oriented towards consumers. We identify two types of costs| access cost and communication cost. We demonstrate that dynamic allocation of data can minimize these costs. We do so by presenting eecient algorithms based on dynamic allocation; these algorithms optimize access and communication costs for various cost models, acc...

For the cost and cost-effectiveness outcomes, the authors searched the databases of MEDLINE, Health Planning and Administration, the Office of Health Economics and the NHS CRD's NHS EED. The search terms used are listed in an appendix to the review. The authors search strategy was developed using standard systematic review techniques and had five components: sources of evidence (the databases s...

In many managerial applications, situations frequently occur when a fixed cost is used in constructing the common platform of an organization, and needs to be shared by all related entities, or decision making units (DMUs). It is of vital importance to allocate such a cost across DMUs where there is competition for resources. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been successfully used in cost an...

this paper demonstrates a method to how reserve capacity and cost allocation could be determined in a pool-based and disaggregated market model. the method considers both the spinning reserve and interruptible loads as the operating reserve services. in the proposed market, generators and consumers (including participation of interruptible loads) submit offers and bids to the independent system...

The problem we investigate deals with the optimal assignment of a resource to the activities of a stochastic project network. We seek to minimize the expected cost of the project, which we take as the sum of resource utilization costs and lateness cost, if the project is completed after a specified due date. Both costs are functions of the resource allocations to the activities with opposite re...

The transmission usage cost allocation is one of the major issues experienced by the Electric Supply Industries. In this paper, authors have considered Line Outage Distribution Factor (LODF) for allocating the transmission usage cost allocation under contingency condition. Authors have modified the distribution factor for maximum flow and propose a novel Maximum Line Outage Distribution Factor ...

In this paper, we introduce a game-theoretical formulation for a specific form of collaborative industrial relations called “Industrial Symbiotic Relation (ISR) games” and provide a formal framework to model, verify, and support collaboration decisions in this new class of two-person operational games. ISR games are formalized as cooperative cost-allocation games with the aim to allocate the to...

A major challenge facing cloud computing is virtual resource allocation with dynamic characteristics. Evaluation of a resource allocation strategy using a single aspect can no longer meet the real world demands. We resolve this issue from the perspectives of users and resource providers using a particle swarm algorithm for resource allocation. With this algorithm, we establish an allocation mod...

This paper demonstrates a method to how reserve capacity and cost allocation could be determined in a pool-based and disaggregated market model. The method considers both the spinning reserve and interruptible loads as the operating reserve services. In the proposed market, generators and consumers (including participation of interruptible loads) submit offers and bids to the independent system...

Dynamic services using the scalable and virtualized property over the network is provided in the cloud computing environment. The cloud computing does not effective in handling the normal resource allocation algorithms. The cloud computing schedulers make a decision on workflow allocation. Cloud always consumes a high communication cost than the known resource schedulers in large scale distribu...