The proper use of natural resources can preserve these valuable assets. In line with the management of natural resources, land use optimization can be highly useful. The aim of the present study is to propose an appropriate integrative model for optimized allocation of lands for surface runoff and sediment load minimization and net income maximization in Bayg watershed, Iran. In this study, fiv...

UWAgents is a Java-based mobile agent system optimized for implementing grid computing infrastructure. Unlike most mobile agent systems, which are used only for job deployment and result collection in grid computing, UWAgents addresses specific requirements for coordinating the entire execution of a parallel and distributed computing application. These includes allocation of process identifiers...

Introduction Interstate water disputes are an increasingly common occurrence throughout the United States, as the demands on transboundary water resources continue to increase in magnitude and diversity. These disputes can involve a variety of water-related issues. In the arid and semi-arid West, the interstate allocation-or "apportionment"-is normally the central and often only concern. In the...

(a) Department of Water Resources, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN, Delft, The Netherlands h. mianabadi @ tudelft.nl (b) Department of Water Resources, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN, Delft, The Netherlands e.mostert @ tudelft.nl (c) Faculty of Civil Engineering...

This study examined the growth, activity, metabolism and post-release survival of three groups of Florida largemouth bass Micropterus floridanus: wild-caught fish, hatchery fish reared according to standard practice (hatchery standard) and hatchery fish reared under reduced and unpredictable food provisioning (hatchery manipulated). Hatchery-standard fish differed from wild-caught fish in all m...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the allocation of output and the water supply for two firms to produce differentiated product in two oligopoly game models established under the settings of complete information and incomplete information respectively. By solving a linear demand system model, this paper obtains the corresponding allocation results of output and the water supply for tw...

We engage in a critical assessment of the neo-malthusian claim that climatic changes can be an important source of international tensions, in the extreme even militarized interstate disputes. The most likely scenario is conflict over water allocation in international catchments shared by poorer, less democratic, and politically less stable countries, governed by weak international water managem...

In this letter, we investigate the resource allocation for downlink multi-cell coordinated OFDMA wireless networks, in which power allocation and subcarrier scheduling are jointly optimized. Aiming at maximizing the weighted sum of the minimal user rates (WSMR) of coordinated cells under individual power constraints at each base station, an effective distributed resource allocation algorithm us...