universities of medical science and health services (umshss) are among the main organizations in iran's health-care section. improving their efficiency in financial resource management through creating an appropri-ate coordination between consumption and resources is strategically vital. investigating the financial performance as well as ranking the iranian umshss is the research objective.the ...

Resource egalitarianism and welfare egalitarianism are two focal conceptions of distributive justice. We show in this paper that they share a solid common ground. To do so, we analyze a simple model of resource allocation in which agents’ abilities (to transform the resource into an interpersonally comparable outcome) and starting points may differ. Both conceptions of egalitarianism are natura...

In Grid computing, a common task is performed by combining the resources from different locations or domains. It will use only the fixed number of resources available in different locations. It doesn’t scale the resources according to the users’ demand. On the other hand cloud computing provides resources to users according to their demand. Grid computing uses the autoscaling capacity of cloud ...

This paper presents a quantitative evaluation of a set of approaches for increasing the accuracy of an area-based stereo matching method. It is targeting real-time FPGA systems focused on low resource usage and maximized improvement per cost unit to enable concurrent processing. The approaches are applied to a resource optimized correspondence implementation and the individual and cumulative co...

due to consuming about 50%-80% of health resources, hospitals are the greatest and costly operational units in iranian health system. so allocation of resources specially human and space resources as the most expensive ones is really important for further controlling of costs, analysis of costs and making suitable policies for increasing the profitability and allocation of resources and improve...

Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem is a very important problem in project management, manufacturing and resource optimization. We focus on a variant of RCPSP with time lags and variable activity durations. The solving approach is based on Precedence Constraint Posting that adds new precedence constraints to the original project graph so that all resource conflicts are solved and a ...

We study the earliness-tardiness scheduling problem on a single machine with due date assignment and controllable processing times. We analyze the problem with three different due date assignment methods and two different processing time functions. For each combination of these, we provide a polynomialtime algorithm to find the optimal job sequence, due date values and resource allocation minim...

Three major mouse knockout programs are underway worldwide, working together to mutate all protein-encoding genes in the mouse using a combination of gene trapping and gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. Although the current emphasis is on production of this valuable resource, there are significant efforts to facilitate program coordination, to enhance the availability of this re...

ABSTRACT This paper describes the Active Response GIS (AR/GIS) for resource planning and land­ allocation deliberation. AR/GIS is an integrated system which combines GIS and electronic meeting software. This combination provides the voting, information organization, and brainstorming of an electronic meeting system, and supports interaction with geographic data sets. The AR/GIS system can impro...

The integration of mobile agents with SNMP creates significant advantages for the management of complex networks. Nevertheless, the security concerns of mobile agent technology limit its acceptance in practice. A key issue is to safeguard resource usage abuse by malicious or buggy mobile agents on the hosting system. This paper describes how the TINMAN architecture, a framework and a suite of t...