Allais’ paradox and resource allocation in telecommunication networks

Bicriteria Resource Allocation Problem in Pert Networks

We develop a bicriteria model for the resource allocation problem in PERT networks, in which the total direct costs of the project as the first objective, and the mean of project completion time as the second objective are minimized. The activity durations are assumed to be independent random variables with either exponential or Erlang distributions, in which the mean of each activity duration ...

Two-Level Decomposition Method for Resource Allocation in Telecommunication Networks

n this paper, we consider a two-level problem of resource allocation in a telecommunication network divided into zones. At the upper level the network manager distributes homogeneous resource shares among zones in order to maximize the total network profit, which takes into account the inner zonal payments from users and the implementation costs. This means that each zonal income calculation at...

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Learning in the Allais paradox

Whereas both the Allais paradox, the first empirical challenge of the classical rationality assumptions, and learning have been the focus of many experimental investigations, no experimental study exists today into learning in the pure context of the Allais paradox. This paper presents such a study. We find that choices converge to expected utility maximization if subjects are given the opportu...

Resource Allocation in Networks

Most work on constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) starts with a standard problem deenition and focuses on algorithms for nd-ing solutions. However, formulating a CSP so that it can be solved by such methods is often a diicult problem in itself. In this paper, we consider the problem of routing in networks, an important problem in communication networks. It is as an example of a problem where ...