Integrated community energy systems (ICESs) are a modern development of local by integrating distributed resources and communities. Cost allocation is one the key issues affecting success ICESs. Costs should be allocated to those who cause them, benefits make investments. A well-designed cost approach will therefore contribute successful implementation sustainable This paper presents general fr...

In this paper, we present a genetic algorithm (GA) for optimization of a multi-mode resource constrained time cost trade off (MRCTCT) problem. The proposed GA, each activity has several operational modes and each mode identifies a possible executive time and cost of the activity. Beyond earlier studies on time-cost trade-off problem, in MRCTCT problem, resource requirements of each execution mo...

We introduce the class of Obligation rules for minimum cost spanning tree situations. The main result of this paper is that such rules are cost monotonic and induce also population monotonic allocation schemes. Another characteristic of Obligation rules is that they assign to a minimum cost spanning tree situation a vector of cost contributions which can be obtained as product of a double stoch...

This paper formulates the job allocation problem in distributed systems with bandwidth-constrained nodes. The bandwidth limitations of the nodes play an important role in the design of cost-optimal job allocation schemes. In this paper, we present a pricing strategy for generalized distributed systems by formulating an incomplete information bargaining game on two variables (price and percentag...

This paper studies channel allocation methods for data dissemination through broadcast and on-demand channels. Analytical models and cost formulae for exclusive broadcast channels and exclusive on-demand channels are provided. Based on the models, we further derive cost models for dynamic channel allocation methods and propose a channel adaptation algorithm for optimizing system performance. Th...

This paper studies channel allocation methods for data dissemination through broadcast and on-demand channels. Analytical models and cost formulae for exclusive broadcast channels and exclusive on-demand channels are provided. Based on the models, we further derive cost models for dynamic channel allocation methods and propose a channel adaptation algorithm for optimizing system performance. Th...