Educational Achievement and the Allocation of School Resources The school resources – educational outcomes debate has focused almost exclusively on spending levels. We extend this by analysing the relationship between student achievement and schools’ budget allocation decisions using panel data. Per-pupil expenditure has only a modest relationship with improvement in students’ standardised test...

Multiagent resource allocation defines the issue of having to distribute a set of resources among a set of agents, aiming at a fair and efficient allocation. Resource allocation procedures can be evaluated with regard to properties such as budget balance and strategy-proofness. Designing a budget-balanced and strategy-proof allocation procedure that always provides a fair (namely, envyfree) and...

Sex allocation theory applied to hermaphrodites assumes that there is a trade off between the allocation of resources to male and female functions, within a fixed reproductive resource budget. Charnov's classic resource allocation model predicts a more female-biased sex allocation when competition among different sperm donors is low due to diminishing fitness returns for male investment. By man...

This paper incorporates two-stage education in a political economy model to study the endogenous determination of public budget allocation across education stages. With hierarchical education, individuals’ benefits from higher education depend on their qualifications, and congestion arises when higher enrollment lowers schooling quality. In less developed economies, the top class has dominant p...

In this paper, we study the problem of selecting a system that has the best performance or selecting one of the best systems when the objective function is the expected performance of a complex stochastic system. The focus here is on a huge size but finite feasible solution set, that is not necessarily well structured. We consider the use of the ordinal optimization technique that concerns with...

In this paper we attempt to introduce dynamics into the theory of cooperative games. A solution of the game is reached through an allocation process. At each stage of the allocation process of a cooperative game a budget of fixed size is distributed among the players. In the first part of this note we study a type of process that, at any stage, endows the budget to a player whose contribution t...

Traditional algorithms are suitable when steps of algorithm are to be executed in a sequence and at a single location. These algorithms have limitations, when used in multi-agent environment, where different agents of single application run on different nodes, thus emphasizing the need for distributed algorithms. Agents in multi-agent systems perform task independently and share the result with...

This article indicates the various financial problems associated with the college library budget. It studies the meaning of budget and examined the various techniques of budgeting that may be use in the libraries for fund acquisition and allocation. It draws the necessary steps to be taken for library budget preparation and finally concluded with the role of librarian for better utilization of ...

The work presented in this thesis revolves around erasure correction coding, as applied to distributed data storage and real-time streaming communications. First, we examine the problem of allocating a given storage budget over a set of nodes for maximum reliability. The objective is to find an allocation of the budget that maximizes the probability of successful recovery by a data collector ac...