Creating eLearning material with optimal utilisation of limited resources

Optimal control of epidemics with limited resources.

We extend the existing work on the time-optimal control of the basic SIR epidemic model with mass action contact rate. Previous results have focused on minimizing an objective function that is a linear combination of the cost associated with using control and either the outbreak size or the infectious burden. We instead, provide analytic solutions for the control that minimizes the outbreak siz...

Creating Pinhole Cameras and Images with Limited Resources

Optimal Allocation of Very Limited Search Resources

This paper presents a probabilistic model for studying the question: given n search resources, where in the search tree should they be ezpended? Specifically, a least-cost root-to-leaf path is sought in a random tree. The tree is known to be binary and complete to depth N. Arc costs are independently set either to 1 (with probability p ) or to 0 (with probability l-p ). The cost of a leaf is th...

Optimal allocation of distribution maintenance resources with limited information

Maintenance of distribution systems plays a central, although often overlooked, role in determining both the reliability and cost of supply. In previous work, an approach was developed that optimizes the effectiveness of distribution protective devices. This paper extends that framework to the optimal use of maintenance resources for reliability. Firstly, a framework is established assuming con...

Approximating Optimal Policies for Agents with Limited Execution Resources

This paper considers the problem of composing or scheduling several (non-deterministic) behaviors so as to conform to a specified target behavior as well as satisfying constraints imposed by the environment in which the behaviors are to be performed. This problem has already been considered by several works in the literature and applied to areas such as web service composition, the composition ...