There are many problems related to the design of networks and accommodate demands from different users subject to some constraints on users’ quality of service (QoS) and fairness through the network. The problem of resource allocation and message routing plays a determinant role in the optimization of networks performance. Our work emphasizes the message routing problem in data networks, but it...

We consider large-scale, network-based, resource allocation problems under uncertainty, with specific focus on the class of problems referred to as multi-commodity flow problems with time-windows. These problems are at the core of many network-based resource allocation problems. Inherent data uncertainty in the problem guarantees that deterministic optimal solutions are rarely, if ever, execute...

Cooperation and competition are opposing forces in Multi-Provider Distributed Systems (MPDSs) such as the Inter-net routing infrastructure. Often, competitive needs cause providers to keep certain information confidential thereby hindering cooperation and leading to undesirable behavior. For instance, recent work has shown that lack of inter-domain cooperation in performing intra-domain routing...

development projects in natural water resources like rivers and lakes, specially transferring water to use in agriculture, domestic and industrial sector without considering environmental values, causes irrecoverable and irreversible damage to ecosystem and future options. if we consider the future generation and species rights, those damages and costs can be very much than we take in. the abov...

One critical issue in tra c management of ATM networks is, to achieve the balance between two seemingly con icting goals: to guarantee the Quality of Service (QoS) for all service classes, while still allowing enough statistical sharing of bandwidth so that the network is e ciently utilized. Guaranteeing QoS requires tra c isolation, as well as allocation of enough network resource (e.g. bu er ...

One critical issue in tra c management of ATM networks is, to achieve the balance between two seemingly con icting goals: to guarantee the Quality of Service (QoS) for all service classes, while still allowing enough statistical sharing of bandwidth so that the network is e ciently utilized. Guaranteeing QoS requires tra c isolation, as well as allocation of enough network resource (e.g. bu er ...

water is an essential yet constrained commodity for human communities and ecological systems depend on it. with population growth and economic development, water resource is increasingly declining. over the past two decades, because of changes in population and climate, and relative welfare increase, the per capita consumption of water has increased. thus, optimal use of available water resourc...

There are several issues in multimedia communications, such as resource allocation, quality-of-service (QoS) routing, synchronisation, playout compensation and so on, which affect the continuous and smooth running of a multimedia application. The Internet demands the design of flexible and adaptable multimedia services so as to offer better quality presentations to the user. In this context, ag...

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), as a system of allocative efficiency for global health programs, is an influential criterion for resource allocation in the context of diplomacy and inherent foreign policy decisions therein. This is because such programs have diplomatic benefits and costs that can be uploaded from the recipient and affect the broader foreign policy interests of the donor and ...