Background Despite Indonesia’s health status improvement over the last decade, special efforts to achieve the MDGs goals are still warranted, especially in maternal, neonatal, and child health (MNCH). However, the current centrally driven MNCH policies do not address the geographical disparities and the different constraints faced by Indonesian provinces and districts. Moreover, the MNCH slow p...

The Steiner tree problem with revenues, budget and hop constraints is a variant of the Steiner tree problem where, besides the costs associated with arcs, there are also revenues associated with the vertices. Budget and hop constraints impose limits on the total cost of the network and on the number of edges between any vertex and the root, respectively. This article introduces and compares sev...

A HOUSEHOLD DAILY NON-MANDATORY ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION AND DURATION MODELING ACCOUNTING FOR PERSON LEVEL BUDGET CONSTRAINTS Ivana Vukovic Old Dominion University, 2017 Director: Dr. Rajesh Paleti A key methodological and behavioral innovative component in recent Activity-Based Models (ABMs) used for transportation planning is the household-level non-mandatory activity participation component. W...

Congestion occurs when there is competition for resources by selfish agents. In this paper, we are concerned with smoothing out congestion in a network of resources by using personalized well-timed incentives that are subject to budget constraints. To that end, we provide: (i) a mathematical formulation that computes equilibrium for the resource sharing congestion game with incentives and budge...

This study aims to develop a multi-period distribution system design model that provides an integrated view of the various costs, service quality and budget concerns within the planning horizon, as well as computationally feasible methods for obtaining solutions in realistic situations. The key design decisions considered in each period are: the number and location of distribution centers in t...

The consumption set X is the set of all conceivable consumption bundles q, usually identified with R+ The budget set B ⊂ X is the set of affordable bundles In standard model individuals can purchase unlimited quantities at constant prices p subject to total budget y. The budget set is the Walrasian, competitive or linear budget set: B = {q ∈ R+|pq ≤ y} Notice this is a convex, closed and bounde...

In keyword search advertising, many advertisers operate on a limited budget. Yet how limited budgets affect keyword search advertising has not been extensively studied. This paper offers an analysis of the generalized second-price auction with budget constraints. We find that the budget constraint may induce advertisers to raise their bids to the highest possible amount for two different motiva...

All societies face the need to make judgments about what interventions (both public health and personal medical) to provide to their populations under reasonable resource constraints. Their decisions should be informed by good evidence and arguments from health technology assessment (HTA). But if HTA restricts itself to evaluations of safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness, it risks being vie...

This paper is about allocation of an infinitely divisible good to several rational and strategic agents. The allocation is done by a social planner who has limited information because the agents’ valuation functions are taken to be private information known only to the respective agents. We allow only a scalar signal, called a bid, from each agent to the social planner. Yang and Hajek [25] as w...