In this paper, we develop a resource allocation and admission control scheme for multimedia services downlink transmission in a multiple parallel time-varying subchannels circumstance such as that in current orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. We introduce the outage probability to characterize the influence of both the bursty nature of...

In Electronic Commerce, the intra-organizational coordination of directly responsible units, e. g. profitcenters or firms within an affiliated group, is of increasing importance. These organizational units can be modeled within a Multi-Agent System (MAS), an interconnection of autonomous information systems. This paper investigates co-ordination mechanisms for MAS in decentralized transportatio...

BACKGROUND: There has been an increased interest in the role of a human rights framework to mobilize resources for health. DISCUSSION: This paper argues that the human rights framework does provide us with an appropriate understanding of what values should guide a nation's health policy, and a potentially powerful means of moving the health agenda forward. It also, however, argues that appeals ...

How do we allocate scarce resources? How do we fairly allocate costs? These are two pressing challenges facing society today. I discuss two recent projects at NICTA concerning resource and cost allocation. In the first, we have been working with FoodBank Local, a social startup working in collaboration with food bank charities around the world to optimise the logistics of collecting and distrib...

The survival and proliferation of cells and organisms require a highly coordinated allocation of cellular resources to ensure the efficient synthesis of cellular components. In particular, the total enzymatic capacity for cellular metabolism is limited by finite resources that are shared between all enzymes, such as cytosolic space, energy expenditure for amino-acid synthesis, or micro-nutrient...

A combined control of multimedia quality and network resource allocation is a core requirement for the deployment of communication services shared by multiple users (multi-user). The challenge resides in achieving a high number of satisfied users while saving the scarce network resources. This situation occurs due to the dynamic changes in resource demands, the existence of links with different...

The global internet is rich in commodity resources but scarce in specialized resources. We argue that a grid framework can achieve better performance if it separates the management of commodity tasks from the tasks requiring specialized resources. We show that the performance of task execution on a commodity grid is the delay of entering into execution. This effectively transforms the resource ...

The Covid-19 pandemic collapsed the healthcare systems and required actions that would ultimately be able to guide allocation of scarce resources. efforts coordinated by federal government are linked good governance, so absence these implies violation Patients’ Human Rights, including right not subjected cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. Actions alleviate suffering people under constitute...