Utilization management of Persian Gulf oil and gas reserves is important, because of the importance of this area owing to the fact that it comprised 60% of the proven oil reserves and 40% of the proven gas reserves of the world and it determines the world's oil and gas strategies. By using game theory, this paper seeks to achieve the best strategy that Iran could use in confronting other partne...

resource allocation techniques have recently appeared as a widely recognized feature in lte networks. most of existing approaches in resource allocation focus on maximizing network’s utility functions. the great potential of utility function in improving resource allocation and enhancing fairness and mean opinion score (mos) indexes has attracted large efforts over the last few years. in this p...

THE PURPOSE of this paper is to bring to the attention of a larger, nonspecialized audience a possible change in policy that may have wide and costly ramifications: deregulation of natural gas prices. There is some value in making even rough "guesstimates" of the economic implications of price deregulation because of the general bias that both economists and businessmen have in favor of deregul...

In resource allocation and target setting problems, a central decision makers? managerial standpoint has pivotal role, especially when we encounter undesirable outputs such as the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. circumstances, firms have to cooperate with each other, achieve planner?s aims. Looking into literature reveals that existing models based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) not aptly c...

S hale resource systems have had a dramatic impact on the supply of oil and especially gas in North America, in fact, making United States energy independent in natural gas reserves. These shale resource systems are typically organic-rich mudstones that serve as both source and reservoir rock or source petroleum found in juxtaposed organic-lean facies. Success in producing gas and oil from thes...

distribution and allocation of resources is affected by factors such as values, norms, social stratifications, ideology, information, coercion, political challenges, and even external factors. this finding means that there is always a fundamental tendency to redirect resources toward political goals instead of public interests and development. because the resource structure is strongly influenc...