Restructuring of Electricity supply industry introduced many issues such as transmission pricing, transmission loss allocation and congestion management. Many methodologies and algorithms were proposed for addressing these issues. In this paper a power flow tracing based method is proposed which involves Matrices methodology for the transmission usage and loss allocation for generators and dema...

We investigated sex allocation in a Mediterranean population of the facultatively polygynous (multiple queen per colony) ant Pheidole pallidula. This species shows a strong split sex ratio, with most colonies producing almost exclusively a single-sex brood. Our genetic (microsatellite) analyses reveal that P. pallidula has an unusual breeding system, with colonies being headed by a single or a ...

In this paper, we consider QoS-guaranteed wavelength allocation for WDM networks with limited-range wavelength conversion. In the wavelength allocation, the pre-determined number of wavelengths are allocated to each QoS class depending on the required loss probability. We evaluate the connection loss probability of each QoS class for single-hop and ring networks using continuous-time Markov cha...

We consider private good economies with single-plateaued preferences. We show that the uniform rule is the only allocation rule satisfying indifference (in terms of welfare), strategy-proofness and no-envy. Indifference (in terms of welfare) means that if one allocation is recommended, then another allocation is recommended if and only if all agents are indifferent between these allocations.  ...

Cross-layer design approaches are critical to efficiently utilize radio resources. Resource allocation decision is made by assuming a single user. Multiple access scheme used is an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDM). With the goal of choosing best error detection technique, various techniques are compared. A resource allocation algorithm is required to efficiently allocate pow...

The optimal locating of facilities has large effects on economic benefits, providing satisfactory service and levels of customer satisfaction. One of the new topics discussed in location problems is hub location and hub facilities are subject to unpredictable disruptions. This paper proposes a nonlinear integer model for reliable single allocation hub location problem that considers backup hub,...

In this work, we propose a new active queue management mechanism called MFQ (Multicast Fair Queuing) for multicast flows. MFQ is independent of the inter-multicast fairness policy and it interacts with a multicast bandwidth allocation module that can implement either a multicast fairness policy or a multicast pricing model and tries using a single FIFO queue to achieve the expected allocation w...

Global register allocation is one of the most important optimizations in a compiler. Since the early 80’s, register allocation by graph coloring has been the dominant approach. The traditional formulation of graph-coloring register allocation implicitly assumes a single bank of non-overlapping general-purpose registers and does not handle irregular architectural features like overlapping regist...

This paper formulates the job allocation problem in distributed systems with bandwidth-constrained nodes. The bandwidth limitations of the nodes play an important role in the design of cost-optimal job allocation schemes. In this paper, we present a pricing strategy for generalized distributed systems by formulating an incomplete information bargaining game on two variables (price and percentag...

This paper revisits the classical single object auction model in private values quasilinear environment. We investigate the compatibility of rational allocation rules to implementation in dominant strategies in this model. A rational allocation rule chooses an alternative at every valuation profile such that it is maximal with respect to an ordering. We show that if an allocation rule is non-bo...