The issue of the allocation of resources in health care is here to stay. The goal of this study was to explore the views of physicians on several topics that have arisen in the debate on the allocation of scarce resources and to compare these with the views of policy makers. We asked physicians (oncologists, cardiologists, and nursing home physicians) and policy makers to participate in an inte...

Grid computing is the concept of harnessing the power of many computational resources in a transparent manner. It is currently an active research area, with significant challenges due to the scale and level of heterogeneity involved. One of the key challenges in implementing grid systems is resource allocation. Currently, centralised approaches are employed that have limited scalability and rel...

This paper, motivated by the experiences of a major US-based semiconductor manufacturer, presents an integrated model of incentive problems arising in forecasting and capacity allocation. Our model involves multiple product managers and multiple manufacturing managers who forecast the means of their respective demand and capacity distributions. A central coordinator is responsible for allocatin...

We show that the efficient allocation of production capacity can turn a competitive industry and downstream market into an imperfectly competitive one. Even though downstream firms have symmetric production technologies, the downstream industry structure will be symmetric only if capacity is sufficiently scarce. Otherwise it will be asymmetric, with one large “fat” capacityhoarding firm and a f...

In the last decade of the sixteenth century, the Dutch republic underwent a dramatic economic transformation that laid the foundation of the country’s Golden Age. At the heart of this process was the rise of the ‘rich trades’, the network by which Dutch shipping came to dominate the lucrative trade routes to the East Indies, the Americas and the Levant (Israel (1990)). The rise of the ‘rich tra...

Negotiation in a multiagent system is a topic of active interest for enabling the allocation of scarce resources among autonomous agents. A discussion of the research puts in context the contributions to resource allocation from the fields of economics, mathematics, and multiagent systems. We group the criteria based on how they relate to each other as well as their historical context. In addit...

Providing guaranteed QoS, be it statistical or deterministic, necessarily requires allocation of scarce resources. This might happen on a session or on an aggregate basis, nevertheless, it is conceivable that at least at system edges scarcity of resources, exposed in the form of non-negligible (virtual) costs, will prevail to necessitate explicit allocation of resources as opposed to pure overd...

Providing guaranteed QoS necessarily requires allocation of scarce resources. It is conceivable that at least at system edges scarcity of resources, exposed in the form of non-negligible (virtual) costs, will prevail to necessitate explicit allocation of resources as opposed to pure overdimensioning. An example of this logic is constituted by the Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture....

BACKGROUND The pace of redressing inequities in the distribution of scarce health care resources in Namibia has been slow. This is due primarily to adherence to the historical incrementalist type of budgeting that has been used to allocate resources. Those regions with high levels of deprivation and relatively greater need for health care resources have been getting less than their fair share. ...

This paper studies a sequential resource allocation problem motivated by distribution operations of a nonprofit organization. The alternate objectives that arise in nonprofit, as opposed to commercial, operations lead to new variations on traditional problems in operations research and inventory management. Specifically, we consider the problem of distributing a scarce resource to meet sequenti...