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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"optimal allocation"”.
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Optimal allocation of blood products
… (LIFO) policy. This study addresses the optimal distribution policy to achieve a desired outdate, shortage and average age of apheresis platelets. A comprehensive literature review was conducted on previous models studied to efficiently distribute blood products. However, most of the …
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Optimal allocation of surgical services
… These approaches often lead to demonstrably sub-optimal operational decisions. We have developed a framework for answering these questions in a more quantitatively rigorous fashion using mathematical programming. Our model captures each surgical case's impact on hospital resources (e.g. OR time, …
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Optimal Allocation of Satellite Network Resources
… to a problem of satellite network resource allocation by exploring the application of an optimal algorithm to a subset of the general scheduling problem. Making some basic simplifications, such as the limitation of the mission scenarios to Low Earth Orbiting satellites, allows the effective …
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Optimal allocation of resources to clinical trials
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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Optimal allocation of Coast Guard district recruiting funds.
This thesis reviews the allocation of Coast Guard district recruiting funds for five Coast Guard districts. An attempt is made to determine the marginal productivity of input factors, advertising, recruiting travel, and give away items. Financial data for the five districts reviewed is compared …
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Optimal Allocation of Resources for Screening of Donated Blood
… products. We explored, in depth, the resource allocation problem in reducing the risks of transfusion-transmitted infections (TTI). We developed models and algorithms to study the problem of selecting a set of blood screening tests for risk reduction, which we show to be very efficient in …
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Optimal allocation of reactive power to mitigate fault delayed voltage recovery
… of the system. We refer to this problem as the optimal allocation of dynamic VAR sources (OAODVARS). OAODVARS has been addressed with traditional analytic methods as well as with Artificial Intelligence methods such as genetic algorithms and Tabu search using mostly power flow type models. Both …
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Optimal Allocation of Building Cooling Loads to Chilled Water Plant Equipment
The air in most non-residential buildings needs to be cooled to maintain occupant comfort. Typically, the air is cooled by using cold water provided by a chiller plant consisting of liquid chillers, cooling towers and pumps. To meet the changing demand for cooling, most buildings have automated …
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Optimal allocation of recreational activities within a reservoir area utilizing topaz
TOPAZ, which is the Technique for the Optimal Placement of Activities in Zones, was developed to provide the urban planner with a workable tool from which he could determine the best allocation of a set of activities to a set of zones and at the same time minimize cost. The main objective of this …
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Optimal allocation of distributed generation for power loss reduction and voltage profile improvement
… improve technical benefits of DG integration by optimal allocation in a power system network. These benefits include electrical power losses reduction and voltage profile improvement. Optimal DG location and sizing in a power system distribution network with the aim of reducing system power …
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Optimal Allocation of STATCOMs and Wind-Based Distributed Generators using a Stochastic Mathematical Program
… effectiveness of such a planning approach in the allocation of STATCOMs and W-DGs. The installation of wind-based distributed generators (W-DGs) in the form of individual units to supply a few loads or in bulk to supply larger loads have increased. High penetration levels of W-DGs have altered the …
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Semiconductor fabrication capacity gains through optimal allocation of product loadings and equipment sharing across process technologies
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1997.
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Sampling Laws for Stochastically Constrained Simulation Optimization on Finite Sets
Consider the context of selecting an optimal system from among a finite set of competing systems, based on a "stochastic" objective function and subject to multiple "stochastic" constraints. In this context, we characterize the asymptotically optimal sample allocation that maximizes the rate at …
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Wages, growth and cycles in the Brazilian economy
… been justified by theories which prescribe the optimal allocation of resources and full employment of factors of production. Supposedly, a higher rate of economic growth is reached by this development model. This dissertation criticizes this view, using the argument that the Brazilian economy …
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Minimum land required to attain specified income levels, Southeast Missouri Delta, 1975
… ment are considered scarce resources, and their optimal allocation among competing uses is the essence of the study of economics. An optimal allocation is one in which the marginal value product of the last units of all resources used is the same in all alternative uses to which society has …
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Theoretical Limits of Quantum Ranging
… with arbitrary loss and noise conditions. The optimal allocation of system resources for performing displacement and squeezing operations is determined. The optimal allocation consists of apportioning all resources to perform either the displacement operation, providing no quantum advantage, or …
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Towards sustainable material usage : time-dependent evaluation of upgrading technologies for recycling
… combining dynamic material flow analysis with optimal allocation of those materials into production portfolios using blending models. This methodology thus captured 1) the flow of EOL scraps, 2) how the economics of production are affected by changes in technology, and 3) a characterization of …
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Using Application Benefit for Proactive Resource Allocation in Asynchronous Real-Time Distributed Systems
This thesis presents two proactive resource allocation algorithms, RBA* and OBA, for asynchronous real-time distributed systems. The algorithms consider an application model where timeliness requirements are expressed using Jensen's benefit functions and propose adaptation functions to describe …
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