A central task in multiagent resource allocation, which provides mechanisms to allocate (bundles of) resources to agents, is to maximize social welfare. We assume resources to be indivisible and nonshareable and agents to express their utilities over bundles of resources, where utilities can be represented in the bundle form, the k-additive form, and as straight-line programs. We study the comp...

When several products are marketed by the same sales force, it frequently becomes impossible or impractical for salesmen to promote all items in the product line extensively in each and e'^ery time period. Management's problem is to decide how the available selling effort should be allocated across products and over time. The opportunity costs associated with using limited selling resources to ...

Nutritional information and the visibility of healthier food products inside store are believed to be important variables in helping shoppers make healthy choices. However, there remain gaps our understanding how consumers select they include complex nutritional decision-making process, a stimuli rich environment. This research tests impact different combinations (information space management) ...

bandwidth labelling is a well known research area in graph theory. we provide a new proof that the bandwidth of mobius ladder is 4, if it is not a $k_{4}$, and investigate the bandwidth of a wider class of mobius graphs of even strips.

Monte Carlo simulation is used to develop a flexible framework to measure the profitability, risk, and competitiveness of any insurance product. A genetic algorithm is then used to seek the optimum asset allocations that form the profitability-risk-competitiveness frontier and to examine the profitability, risk, and competitiveness trade-off's. We also show how to select the appropriate asset a...

Incentives and the Allocation of Legal Costs Products Liability Marilyn J. Simon This paper examines the legal expenditures, the probability of court error and product quality under several rules for allocation legal costs. Equilibrium legal expenditures for the plaintiff and defendant are derived under each rule and the effect of a change on the equilibrium expenditures is derived. It is found...

In this work, we develop a simple MILP model for simultaneous campaign planning and resource allocation in multi-stage batch plants. We capture several real life scenarios including maintenance planning, product outsourcing, and NPIs and study the effect of various process decisions on the solution of the integrated and resource constrained planning problem. Given the products, their projected ...

Transform coding (TC) is an efficient and effective vector quantization approach where the resulting compact representation can be the basis for a more elaborate hierarchical framework for sub-linear approximate search. However, as compared to the state-of-the-art product quantization methods, there is a significant performance gap in terms of matching accuracy. One of the main shortcomings of ...

We develop a procedure for the design of distributed layouts in a multiple period setting, where product demand and product mix may vary from period to period. We allow for multiple copies of the same department type to be placed in non-adjoining locations and for flow allocation among department duplicates to be made based on the demand for each period. We also allow for the possibility of a r...