Selecting among alternative projects is a core management task in all innovating organizations. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of frontier scientific research projects. We argue that the "intellectual distance" between the knowledge embodied in research proposals and an evaluator's own expertise systematically relates to the evaluations given. To estimate relationships, we designed a...

Mexico is facing a time of change in the allocation and distribution public funds due to what Mexican government has called “republican austerity”. Such caused discordance since it said be regressive human rights. The first article Constitution explicitly states obligation all authorities, within scope their powers, promote, respect, protect guarantee rights accordance with principles universal...

Our article illustrates how to compare the outputs from models that simulate transitions among categories through time. We illustrate the concepts by comparing two land change models: Land Change Modeler and Cellular Automata Markov. We show how the modeling options influence the quantity and allocation of simulated transitions, and how to compare output maps from pairs of model runs with respe...

0140-3664/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2010.10.011 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 517 353 4386. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Y. Ding) In this article, we survey the latest progress in multi-channel wireless mesh networks, focusing on wireless interference models and channel allocation algorithms with the goal of maximizing the network performance. We...

This paper addresses the problem of interference aware resource allocation for OFDMA based hybrid hierarchical wireless networks. We develop two resource allocation algorithms considering the impact of wireless interference constraints using a weighted SINR conflict graph to quantify the interference among the various nodes: (1) interference aware routing using maximum concurrent flow optimizat...

We introduce a composite (CP) contract for a two-stage supply chain by organically combining two component contracts: a buy back (BB) contract and a quantity flexibility (QF) contract. The CP contract is shown to have advantages over both component contracts in terms of supply chain coordination, profit allocation, and risk allocation. In particular, we obtain the following results: (a) as long...

For high speed mobile communication applications, the data rate can be increased by using multiple channels (or time slots) instead of a single channel (or time slot). To reduce the high blocking rate of multiple channels assignment, flexible resource allocation strategies are exercised. This paper proposes a generic Mobile Switching Center (MSC) resource allocation algorithm called MRA algorit...

The maximal entropy ordered weighted averaging (ME-OWA)-based decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) method for reliability allocation has been examined. The assessment results show that most conventional reliability allocation methods have five fundamental problems. The first problem is the measurement scale; while the second problem is that the system allocation factors are...

This paper summarizes our experience on the design of network bandwidth allocation policies and distributed rate calculation algorithms for packet-switched networks. In particular, we discuss two rate allocation policies: the generalized max±min (GMM) and the weight-proportional max±min (WPMM) policies, both of which generalize the classical max±min rate allocation policy. For the design of dis...