From decentralized to centralized irrigation management

From Centralized to Decentralized Coded Caching

We consider the problem of designing decentralized schemes for coded caching. In this problem there are K users each cachingM files out of a library of N total files. The question is to minimizeR, the number of broadcast transmissions to satisfy all the user demands. Decentralized schemes allow the creation of each cache independently, allowing users to join or leave without dependencies. Previ...

Centralized or decentralized organization?

Politicians and public managers continue to debate over whether to centralize or to decentralize departments, information systems and services. Shared service centers (SSCs) are gaining importance in public administration as a means to innovate, to reduce costs and to increase service levels. The SSC is a business model in which selected government functions are concentrated into a semi-autonom...

Centralized vs Decentralized Contests

We compare two contest. Decentralized in which there are several independent contests with non overlapping contestants and Centralized in which all contestants …ght for a unique prize which is the sum of all prizes in the small contests. We study the relationship between payo¤s and e¤orts between these two contests. Keywords: Centralization, Decentralization, Contests JEL classi…cation: C72; D7...

Wastewater Management Strategy: centralized v. decentralized technologies for small communities

Centralized and decentralized management of groundwater with multiple users

In this work, we investigate two groundwater inventory management schemes with multiple users in a dynamic game-theoretic structure: (i) under the centralized management scheme, users are allowed to pump water from a common aquifer with the supervision of a social planner, and (ii) under the decentralized management scheme, each user is allowed to pump water from a common aquifer making usage d...