" The cost of transmission facilities must be allocated to those within the transmission planning region that benefit from those facilities in a manner that is at least roughly commensurate with estimated benefits. " (FERC 2010, p. 91) Benefits include reliability, economic and public policy related impacts. Turning the principle into a workable policy is important as a support for restructured...

Background: Communicable diseases are the leading causes of illness, deaths, and disability in sub-Saharan Africa. To address these threats, countries within the World Health Organization (WHO) African region adopted a regional strategy called Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR). This strategy calls for streamlining resources, tools, and approaches to better detect and respond t...

A se t of points, called consumers, and another point called central supplier, are located i n a Euclidean plane. The cost of constructing a connection between two points i s proportional t o the distance between them. The minimum cost required for connecting a l l the consumers t o the supplier i s given by a minimal Steiner tree. An example i s given i n which for every allocation of the tota...

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This paper makes two contributions. First, we introduce a model for evaluating the performance of data allocation and replication algorithms in distributed databases. The model is comprehensive in the sense that it accounts for I/O cost, for communication cost, and for limits on the minimum number of copies of the object (to ensure availability). The second contribution of this paper is the int...

In this paper, a cost saving based allocation strategy for infrastructure resource allocation is proposed to support the business service in cloud computing environment. In a typical enterprise cloud system, it needs the capability to automatically allocate resources by matching resource requirements upon resource availability, while taking both load-balance and cost saving into account. On the...

Solution concepts in cooperative games are based on either cost games or benefit games. Although cost games and benefit games are strategically equivalent, that is not the case in general for solution concepts. Motivated by this important observation, a new property called invariance property with respect to benefit/cost allocation is introduced in this paper. Since such a property can be regar...

We investigate the cost allocation strategy associated with the problem of providing some service of common interest from some source to a number of network users, via the minimum cost directed Steiner tree (ST) network that spans the source and all the receivers. The cost of such ST is distributed among its receivers who may be individuals or organizations with possibly conflicting interests. ...