Balancing Cost and Specifications

For implants, balancing choice and cost control.

Balancing surgical innovation with cost and efficiency.

The standard approach to neoplasia of the pancreatic head is pancreaticoduodenectomy, otherwise known as the Whipple procedure. Traditionally, this operation is performed through an open laparotomy incision. In high-volume centres, and when performed by appropriately qualified surgeons, the Whipple procedure is safe and effective management for diseases of the pancreatic head. Still, this opera...

Balancing Workload and Communication Cost for

Recent advancement in computer graphics and inter-networking technologies enable researchers to experiment and build the distributed virtual environment (DVE) system. In general, a DVE system allows many clients to simultaneously explore a virtual world (which is a high resolution 3D environment representing a real life community) and at the same time, users in this virtual environment can inte...

“Cost of knowledge” issues from specifications

The cost of knowledge characteristic function was introduced by Card, Pirolli and Mackinlay in 1994 as a design tool. This paper explores the value of deriving the function from system specifications. Automating the process enables technical designers (programmers) to see usability issues.

Cost-eeective Data-parallel Load Balancing Cost-eeective Data-parallel Load Balancing

Load balancing algorithms improve a program's performance on unbalanced datasets, but can degrade performance on balanced datasets, because unnecessary load redistributions occur. This paper presents a cost-eeective data-parallel load balancing algorithm which performs load redistributions only when the possible savings outweigh the redistribution costs. Experiments with a data-parallel polygon...