Continuous time models of single exploited populations usually generate outcomes expressing a dependence of yield and economic items on harvest intensity. In this work it is shown that a known threshold policy is able to generate yield and related economic items that do not depend on harvest intensity, but rather on the values of the population threshold itself and the species intrinsic paramet...

In a call center, there is a natural trade-off between minimizing customer wait time and fairly dividing the workload amongst agents of different skill levels. The relevant control is the routing policy; that is, the decision concerning which agent should handle an arriving call when more than one agent is available. We formulate an optimization problem for a call center with heterogeneous agen...

In this paper we have studied the threshold adaptation for energy based spectrum sensing in cognitive radio using non-linear optimization. Several methods to decide the threshold have been proposed in the literature such as fixed threshold, double threshold and adaptive threshold etc. Instead of using these methods to decide threshold in energy detection, an adaptive threshold has been proposed...

According to World Bank policy, countries remain eligible to borrow from the IBRD until they are able to sustain long-term development without further recourse to Bank financing. Graduation from IBRD is not an automatic consequence of reaching a particular income level, but rather is supposed to be based on a determination of whether the country has reached a level of institutional development ...

(1) Soft Computing Laboratory, Computer Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, In this paper, we consider the call admission problem in next generation wireless networks, which must handles multi-media traffics. We give an algorithm, which finds the optimal number of guard channels, which minimizes the overall blocking probability calls with lowest level of Qo...

An Integrated Pest Management is formulated as a threshold policy. It is shown that when this strategy is applied to a food web consisting of generalist, specialist predators and endemic and pest prey, the dynamics can be stable and useful from the pest control point of view, despite the dynamical complexities inherent to the application of biocontrol only. In addition, pesticide toxicity depen...

We consider a system of two separate finite-buffer M/M/1 queues served by a single server, where the switching mechanism between the queues is thresholdbased, determined by the queue which is not being served. Applications may be found in data centers, smart traffic-light control and human behavior. Specifically, whenever the server attends queue i (Qi ) and the number of customers in the other...

In this paper we develop an analytical threshold-based bandwidth allocation policy for 3G multi-class cellular networks. We consider the effects of user mobility when the cellular network supports multiple classes of connections having different QoS bandwidth requirements. The policy gives priority to handoff connections over new calls and prioritizes between different classes of handoff connec...

We evaluate the performance of threshold-based job allocation policies in a heterogeneous distributed computing system, where servers may have different speeds, and jobs may have different service demands, importance, and/or affinities for different servers. We find that while thresholdbased policies typically yield low mean response time, these policies are not robust with respect to fluctuati...