Identifying and Allocating Resources for Learning Improvement

Strategies for Hospital Leadership – Identifying Strengths, Allocating Hospital Resources and Focusing on Profitable Niche Leadership

Allocating Marketing Resources

Marketing is essential for the organic growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments generate appropriate returns for the firm. In this chapter we highlight a two-stage process for marketing resource allocat...

Information Theory and Allocating Resources

The world of information theory is inextricable linked to the world of gambling. Here, gambling takes on the meaning of any situation where resources are distributed among various investments with a hope of maximizing the total return. A look at how the doubling rate of a gambling scheme can be related to the amount of side information about the gamble present is discussed, as well as a discuss...

Considerations for Allocating Resources for Information Security

This paper includes a brief survey illustrating the approach to information security (INFOSEC) investment taken by various organizations, as well as guidelines based on Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) management plans to allocate limited funds among proposals for enhancing National Airspace System (NAS) INFOSEC.

Static Analysis for Identifying and Allocating Clusters of Immortal Objects

Long living objects lengthen the trace time which is a critical phase of the garbage collection process. However, it is possible to recognize object clusters i.e. groups of long living objects having approximately the same lifetime and treat them separately to reduce the load on the garbage collector and hence improve overall performance. Segregating objects this way leaves the heap for objects...