the task of optimally assigning military ordinance to enemy targets, often termed weapon target allocation (wta) problem, has become a major focus of modern military thought where a cost effective allocation is required without degrading the required kill performance. the paper presents three main weapon allocation techniques namely uniform weapon allocation, first-in-first weapon allocation an...

Many portfolio optimization problems deal with allocation of assets which carry a relatively high market price. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the integer value of assets when we deal with portfolio optimization. In addition, one of the main concerns with most portfolio optimization is associated with the type of constraints considered in different models. In many cases, the resulted p...

In this paper, the problem of population districting in the health system of South Khorasan province has been investigated in the form of an optimization problem. Now that the districting problem is considered as a strategic matter, it is vital to obtain efficient solutions in order to implement in the system. Therefore in this study two meta-heuristic algorithms, Ant Lion Optimizer (ALO) and G...

ABSTRACT We consider the problem of optimal power allocation in an MISO system with perfect/partial channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter and perfect CSI at the receiver. Unlike other recent work, we consider power allocation in space and time. In addition to providing substantial reduction in BER, this control surprisingly provides exponential diversity order for a Rayleigh fading...

An alternative mathematical expression for the co-channel interference probability is used, in order to calculate the cellular mobile radio system capacity and to construct a set of compatibility constraints needed for the development of fully adaptive channel allocation (FACA) strategies. The development of such channel allocation techniques becomes a main thrust for the system engineers in or...

In this paper, a new methodology based on system modelling and optimization is developed to determine forest fire risk, and subsequent resource allocation, over a regional area. A forest fuel moisture model and a propagation model are developed, in order to determine the dynamic risk assessment. The objective of resource allocation is twofold. In the preventive phase means and crews are re-allo...

The problem of efficient resource allocation has drawn significant attention in many scientific disciplines due to its direct societal benefits, such as energy savings. Traditional approaches in addressing online resource allocation problems neglect the potential benefit of feedback information available from the running tasks/loads as well as the potential flexibility of a task to adjust its o...

Virtualization promises to overcome the weaknesses of the current Internet and to act as a torch bearer technology for enabling innovative network architectures. However, a fundamental problem in instantiation of Virtual Networks (VNs) is an optimal allocation of resources offered by a physical IP network. In order to solve this NP-hard problem, heuristics have been proposed in literature. This...

T he relationship between birth order and child's human capital is studied in this paper. A Microeconomic model is designed to analyze the intrahousehold behavior on resource allocation and its outcomes for children. Since adding up a child changes the method of intrahousehold resource allocation, the expenditures of investment in child's human capital has been changed too. The aim o...