Abstract Background Optimal, need-based, and equitable allocation of financial resources is one the most important concerns health systems worldwide. Fulfilling this goal requires considering various criteria when allocating resources. The present study was conducted to identify need indicators used allocate in different countries Methods A systematic review on all published articles reports ne...

Developing a complex software system involves decisions about how to allocate a limited resource budget among a collection of costly software alternatives (such as technologies or analysis techniques) that have uncertain future benefits. Very little quantitative guidance is currently available to make these decisions. We suggest that these allocation problems are naturally viewed in the powerfu...

Background In order to meet the challenges presented by increasing demand and scarcity of resources, healthcare organizations are faced with difficult decisions related to resource allocation. Tools to facilitate evaluation and improvement of these processes could enable greater transparency and more optimal distribution of resources.   Methods The Resource Allocation Performance Assessment Too...

Past research and present day challenges circle around the issue of adopting and adapting rationally sound organization structures to optimizing business efficiency. Within these structures, the implicit requirements of material and financial resources have to meet the imperative of adequate intellectual capital, human resource, allocation. Neglecting the positive effect of profound SWOT analys...

The performance of cellular networks will experience a considerable improvement by the use of newtechnologies such as distributed antenna systems (DASs), multi-cell cooperation (MCC), and cognitive radio (CR).However, several issues remain open in the system-level evaluation, radio resource management (RRM), and particularlyin the design of billing/licensing schemes for these types of system. T...

We address explicitly the issue of risk in the theory of the firm. To that end, we present a model in which the shareholders’ portfolio selection of assets and the decisions of the firm are jointly determined through the market process. The model allows to study the role of markets and prices on the type of risky activities undertaken by a firm and the allocation of random profit among sharehol...

The value of the customer has been widely recognised in terms of financial planning and efficient resource allocation including the financial service industry. Previous studies have shown that directly observable information can be used in order to make reasonable predictions of customer attrition probabilities. However, these studies do not take full account of customer behavior information. I...

We develop a bicriteria model for the resource allocation problem in PERT networks, in which the total direct costs of the project as the first objective, and the mean of project completion time as the second objective are minimized. The activity durations are assumed to be independent random variables with either exponential or Erlang distributions, in which the mean of each activity duration ...