G Measuring health utilities involves two main steps: defining a set of health states of interest, and valuing those health states. There are direct or indirect methods of utility valuation. G The methods that have been used to collect data on utilities include the standard gamble approach, the time trade-off approach and the visual analogue approach. G The main indirect methods of utility meas...

Balancing the use of FGPA resources such as FPGA slices, block RAMs, and block multipliers is desirable in many FPGA applications. This task can be carried out manually by experienced hardware designers with the use of hardware description languages, such as Verilog and VHDL. However, many users of reconfigurable computers are software developers who depend on hardware synthesis tools or even h...

This paper proposes a new approach for portfolio allocation. The novel concept of forward dynamic utility is introduced. General classes of such utilities are constructed by combining the local variational utility input with the market dynamics represented by multidimensional Ito process. Explicit closed form expressions for optimal allocations are obtained. They depend exclusively on the optim...

wide variety of AI applications, addressing the preference bottleneck is vital. Specifically, since the ability to make reasonable decisions on behalf of a user depends on that user’s preferences over outcomes in the domain in question, AI systems must assess or estimate these preferences before making decisions. Designing effective preference assessment techniques to incorporate such user-spec...

OBJECTIVES The study aims to inform potential cost-effectiveness analysis of hypertension management in Vietnam by providing utilities and predictors of utilities in patients with hypertension. METHODS Hypertensive patients up to 80 years old visiting the hospital were invited to participate in a survey using Quality Metric's Short-form 36v2TM translated into Vietnamese. Health-state utilitie...