Despite the growing use of decision analytic modelling in cost-effectiveness analysis, there is a relatively small literature on what constitutes good practice in decision analysis. The aim of this paper is to consider the concept of 'validity' and 'quality' in this area of evaluation, and to suggest a framework by which quality can be demonstrated on the part of the analyst and assessed by the...

BACKGROUND Priority setting is necessary in current healthcare services. Discussion of fair process has highlighted the value of developing reasons for allocation decisions on the basis of experience gained from real cases. AIM To identify the reasons that those with experience of real decision-making concerning resource allocation think relevant in deciding on the priority of a new but expen...

Traditional cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) assumes that program costs and benefits scale linearly with investment-an unrealistic assumption for epidemic control programs. This paper combines epidemic modeling with optimization techniques to determine the optimal allocation of a limited resource for epidemic control among multiple noninteracting populations. We show that the optimal resource ...

We study an interactive live streaming scenario where multiple peers pull streams of the same free viewpoint video that are synchronized in time but not necessarily in view. In free viewpoint video, each user can periodically select a virtual view between two anchor camera views for display. The virtual view is synthesized using texture and depth videos of the anchor views via depth-image-based...

We present an analytical model to compute the blocking probability in channelized cellular systems with dynamic channel allocation. We model the channel occupancy in a cell by a two-dimensional (2-D) Markov chain, which can be solved to obtain the blocking probability in each cell. We apply our analytical model to linear highway systems with and without lognormal shadowing and then extend it to...

Power control in direct sequence-coded vision multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems and, more recently, power/rate allocation in multirate DS-CDMA based networks is an open and interesting research area which has attracted much attention. However, with a few exceptions, most researchers have emphasized centralized resource allocation algorithms for cellular systems where the base station keeps trac...

This review considers conceptual issues underlying empirical work on markets. It is divided in three parts. The first part reviews the analysis of demand and equilibrium retail markets then recent advances that require different assumptions: where adverse selection moral hazard may be important, vertical with bargaining, wherein a centralized allocation mechanism replaces prices. second cost pr...

Firms routinely allocate the costs of common corporate resources down to divisions. We seek to understand whether cost allocation rules can induce efficient consumption of corporate resources in an incomplete contracting framework. We propose a new allocation rule (the polynomial rule), which achieves efficiency and approximate budget balance. We also examine conditions under which simple alloc...