The quality of a selection decision is a function of the decision rule used and the data collected to support the decision. When physical measurements are the basis of the decision data, the measurement sampling scheme controls measurement uncertainty and influences decision quality. Faced with a fixed experimental budget for measurement collection over multiple attributes, a decision-maker mus...

Objectives: The present study aimed to provide an estimation of the current financial burden of renal transplantation therapy for insurance organisations.Methods: An Excel-based model was developed to determine the treatment costs of current clinical practice in renal transplantation therapy (RTT). Inputs were derived from Ministry of Health and insurance organizations` database, hospital and p...

Co-allocation is a fundamental infrastructure to aggregate heterogeneous and distributed resources in grid environments. Although it has been studied extensively, coallocation under the constraints to budget and deadline still remains an opening issue, which means that tradeoff between user QoS requirements and system performance should be agreed. In this paper, a novel agent-based twophase co-...

The purpose of the current research is to focus on concept and significance programs performance budgeting as one contemporary approaches creating general budget, since this approach has numerous benefits when it comes monitoring evaluating performance. This modern method been applied in many countries world proven successful. continue follow traditional (budget items) preparing budget. Therefo...

Precipitation efficiency is one of important meteorological parameters and has been widely used in operational precipitation forecasts (e.g., Doswell et al., 1996). Precipitation efficiency has been defined as the ratio of precipitation rate to the sum of all precipitation sources from water vapor budget (e.g., Auer and Marwitz, 1968; Heymsfield and Schotz, 1985; Chong and Hauser, 1989; Dowell ...

The fundamental statistical strategy of improving sampling efficiency through partitioning the population is applied to software testing. Usage models make it possible to apply this strategy to improve the efficiency of testing. The testing budget is allocated to the blocks of the partition, and the software is executed on the sample of uses drawn from each block or sub-population of potential ...

Abstract We compare two welfare programs: the universal basic income (UBI) and negative tax (NIT). Under a linear system, we show that (i) NIT can replicate allocation of UBI exactly by providing an identical marginal effective schedule, (ii) budget is always smaller than UBI. According to our quantitative model, which calibrated approximate wealth distributions in United States, optimal pay ev...

The stochastic job shop scheduling problem (SJSSP) is a kind of stochastic programming problem which transformed from job shop scheduling problem. The SJSSP is an NP-hard problem. Current solutions for the SJSSP can be classified as analytic and heuristic. However, these two methods ignored characteristics of SJSSP, which lead to large computation times and inefficient solutions. In order to ef...

In this paper we investigate experimentally the effects of a wage tax financed unemployment benefit system on the development of the budget deficit, unemployment, and some other indicators of economic performance in an international economy. We find support for the hypothesis that out-of-equilibrium price uncertainty affects the behavior of economic agents. Due to uncertainty about prices risk-...