Modeling at farm level: Positive Multi-Attribute Utility Programming

Comparison of the programming models for considering risk in farm planning:application of utility-efficient programming

Multi-Attribute Bayesian Optimization under Utility Uncertainty

We consider multi-attribute Bayesian optimization, where each design in an optimization problem’s feasible space is associated with a vector of attributes that can be evaluated via a time-consuming computer code, and each vector of attributes is assigned a utility according to a decision-maker’s utility function. A standard Bayesian optimization approach could be applied if the utility function...

Antimicrobial resistance at farm level.

Bacteria that are resistant to antimicrobials are widespread. This article reviews the distribution of resistant bacteria in farm environments. Humans, animals, and environmental sites are all reservoirs of bacterial communities that contain some bacteria that are susceptible to antimicrobials and others that are resistant. Farm ecosystems provide an environment in which resistant bacteria and ...

Efficient Multi-level Threshold Attribute Based Encryption

Anonymous access control is a very desirable property in various applications e.g. encrypted storage in distributed environments; and attribute based encryption (ABE) is a cryptographic scheme that is targeted to achieve this property. ABE is an encryption mechanism that is useful in settings where the list of users may not be known apriori, but all users may possess certain credentials which c...

Development of the multi-attribute Adolescent Health Utility Measure (AHUM)

OBJECTIVE Obtain utilities (preferences) for a generalizable set of health states experienced by older children and adolescents who receive therapy for chronic health conditions. METHODS A health state classification system, the Adolescent Health Utility Measure (AHUM), was developed based on generic health status measures and input from children with Hunter syndrome and their caregivers. The...