Call admission control is a principal component for QoS delivery in IP networks. It determines the extent to which network resources are utilized. It determines also whether QoS are actually delivered or not. Continuing on the steps of the existing approaches, we introduce a distributed and scalable admission control scheme to provide end-to-end statistical QoS guarantees in Differentiated Serv...

An analytical design procedure to determine optimal noise hazard control strategies for industrial facilities is presented. Its objective is to determine a set of appropriate noise controls to eliminate or reduce noise levels so that workers' daily noise exposure does not exceed a permissible level. From a given noise control budget, engineering controls will be firstly implemented, followed by...

(Y.H. Com. 6) state that a system of rationing departments is valuable as a moral factor in keeping down expenditure, and that every hospital should prepare an annual budget. The subject of budgets is one of considerable importance to hospitals, especially so at the present time when strenuous efforts are being made to keep expenditure down as low as possible without in any way impairing effici...

• Cancer has an inverse expenditure/disease burden ratio, accounting for 19% of all deaths and premature deaths (the highest of any disease group) and 7% of healthcare costs. As 65% of those costs are for inpatient services, greater investment in cancer prevention and early detection, as outlined in this submission, would reduce hospital costs while addressing the increasingly disproportionate ...

The adaptive power control of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) communications using Remote Radio Head (RRH) between multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with a link-budget based Signal-to-Interference Ratio (SIR) estimate is applied to four inner loop power control algorithms. It is concluded that Base Station (BS) can calculate not only UAV distance using linearity between speed and Co...

TSSO is a recently proposed search algorithm based on the modified nugget effect kriging metamodel, which solves unconstrained stochastic simulation optimization problems with heterogeneous variances, when the total simulation budget is fixed, through a budget allocation followed by a two–stage sequential procedure. Despite the efficiency and performance of TSSO, no analysis of the structural p...

This paper examines the impact of the form of government—–presidential or parliamentary—–on fiscal outcomes in democratic systems. Based on data for democracies in 98 countries between 1970 and 2002, it shows that the gross domestic product ratio of the central government budget balance is higher in presidential than in parliamentary democracies. It also shows that this impact is not due to the...

This paper is about structuring an object recognition task for finely controlling computational costs. The motivating problem comes from 3D scans with many identical objects, from which the pose of the objects must be recovered as accurately as possible with a given computational budget. This paper presents a method for detecting such objects which allows control over the amount of computation ...