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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"benefit functions"”.
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Soft Real-Time Switched Ethernet: Best-Effort Packet Scheduling Algorithm, Implementation, and Feasibility Analysis
… requirements that are specified using Jensen's benefit functions. The algorithm seeks to maximize aggregate message benefit by allowing message packets to inherit benefit functions of their parent messages and scheduling packets to maximize aggregate packet-level benefit. Since the packet …
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A Population Health Approach for Community Health Improvement
… collaboration and compliance with community benefit mandates. Thus, in 2015, Providence established a community investment governance structure and strategic framework, standardized community assessments and health improvement planning, centralized data collection and storage, and, …
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A dynamic model of competition
… coefficient that depends on the cost and benefit of the competition to a particular technology. The cost and benefit functions are patterned after density-dependent (size) interactions in ecology. The resulting competition coefficient is not a constant but varies as the density of the …
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Using Application Benefit for Proactive Resource Allocation in Asynchronous Real-Time Distributed Systems
… requirements are expressed using Jensen's benefit functions and propose adaptation functions to describe anticipated workload for future time intervals. Furthermore, an adaptation model is considered where processes are replicated for sharing workload increases. A real-time Ethernet system …
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Three Essays on Land Conservation Programs
… maker tries to maximize total environmental benefits from participation under a budget constraint. Result suggests that the cost-effectiveness of land conservation programs depends on the trade off between an ecological effect and an enrollment effect. The second essay of the dissertation …