Behaviors recruit multiple, mutually substitutable types of cognitive resources (e.g., data acquisition and memorization in comparative visual search), and the allocation of resources is performed in a cost-optimizing way. If costs associated with each type of resource are manipulated, e.g., by varying the complexity of the items studied or the visual separation of the arrays to be compared, ac...

Credit transfer protocols are being designed and implemented in market-based resource allocation infrastructures. The design details of these protocols determine the accesscontrol policies that can be expressed and the trading patterns that can be supported. A protocol that enables fine grained manipulation of ownership authorities can support a wider range of access policies and trading patter...

Due to the success of new multimedia technologies, there is a great interest for providing a resource allocation strategy suitable for multimedia applications. Many solutions proposed in literature are based on proportional share resource allocation, such as WFQ, WF2Q, EEVDF, or SFQ. In a previous paper, we showed how to perform resource reservation according to a Constant Bandwidth allocation....

Much previous work has been done on distributed dynamic resource allocation, and there are a number of solutions. Unfortunately, pragmatic mechanisms for Internetwide resource allocation have not received much attention in the research literature. The key challenges for Internet-wide resource allocation are scale and robustness. As the number of resource managers scale, the overall resource uti...

Resource allocation is playing a vital role in grid environment because of the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of grid resources. Literature offers numerous studies and techniques to solve the grid resource allocation problem. Some of the drawbacks occur during grid resource allocation are low utilization, less economic reliability and increased waiting time of the jobs. These problems were oc...

Traditionally, resource allocation problem has been considered as one of the important issues in business process management to maintain the acceptable level of each activity completion time which can reduce the total completion time. Especially, the complexity of managing resources increases when the resource type is human because performance of each human resource might fluctuate over time du...

Support for economic resource allocation in Application Layer Networks (such as Grids) is critical to allow applications and users to effectively exploit computational and data infrastructure as a utility. The evaluation of resource allocation strategies plays a major part in the selection of a resource allocation method. This paper presents an evaluation framework for resource allocation metho...

Wireless USB (WUSB) is the USB technology merged with WiMedia PHY/MAC. WUSB can be applied to WPAN applications as well as PAN applications like wired USB. However the current WUSB protocol can’t provide resource allocation scheme to respond to changes of available resource as well as resource allocation scheme for saturated wireless channel. This problem causes the critical problems in QoS pro...