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...

Mapping between non-preference- and preference-based health-related quality-of-life instruments has become a common technique for estimating health state utility values for use in economic evaluations. Despite the increased use of mapped health state utility estimates in health technology assessment and economic evaluation, the methods for deriving them have not been fully justified. Recent gui...

In video games, pathfinding must be done quickly and accurately. Not much computational time is allowed for pathfinding, but realistic looking paths are required. One approach to pathfinding which attempts to satisfy both of these constraints is to perform pathfinding on abstractions of the map. Botea et al.’s Hierarchical Pathfinding A* (HPA*) does this by dividing the map into square sectors ...

There is a growing evidence base on the cost effectiveness of malaria interventions. However, certain characteristics of malaria decision problems present a challenge to the application of healthcare economic evaluation methods. This paper identifies five such challenges. The complexities of (i) declining incidence and cost effectiveness in the context of an elimination campaign; (ii) internati...

This study investigated children's evaluations of peer group members who deviated from group norms about equal and unequal allocation of resources. Children, ages 3.5 to 4 years and 5 to 6 years (N = 73), were asked to evaluate a peer group member who deviated from 1 of 2 group allocation norms: (a) equal allocation of resources, or (b) unequal allocation of resources. Most children negatively ...

Review of theoretical models for cost-effectiveness and of procedures currently being used by different levels of decision makers to evaluate the projects or alternatives is the main objective of this article. To come to some conclusion that which theoretical model would be more effective to be applied for allocating the limited resources among different projects. the performance evaluation pro...

This paper summarises the main outcomes of theMobile Resource Guarantees (MRG) project, a three year project funded by the EC under the FET proactive initiative on Global Computing, and discusses follow-up work in new projects that will build on these results.

Current approaches to supporting real-time communication allocate network resources either to individual connections, or to aggregates of connections, based on type of traac, protocol, or performance requirements. The rst approach provides well-deened performance guarantees that are independent of other network traac. The second approach may achieve higher utilization of network resources, but ...

Web information resource evaluation (website evaluation) becomes more and more important, as the web information resources become larger and more complex. Thus, a lot of theory and methods have been developed to evaluate websites. In this paper, the author analyzes the primary methods applied currently in the evaluation of the web information resource and points out the main problems in this ar...