Pattern-based strategic surgical capacity allocation

Capacity Choice and Allocation: Strategic Behavior and Supply Chain Performance

We consider a simple supply chain in which a single supplier sells to several downstream retailers. The supplier has limited capacity, and retailers are privately informed of their optimal stocking levels. If retailer orders exceed available capacity, the supplier allocates capacity using a publicly known allocation mechanism, a mapping from retailer orders to capacity assignments. We show that...

Optimal Market-based Multi-Robot Task Allocation via Strategic Pricing

Auction and market-based mechanisms are among the most popular methods for distributed task allocation in multirobot systems. Most of these mechanisms were designed in a heuristic way and analysis of the quality of the resulting assignment solution is rare. This paper presents a new market-based multi-robot task allocation algorithm that produces optimal assignments. Rather than adopting a buye...

Strategic Allocation to Return Factors

Working memory capacity, strategic allocation of study time, and value-directed remembering

To further elucidate the relationship between working memory capacity (WMC) and long-term memory (LTM), the present study investigated how individual differences in WMC relate to strategic encoding and subsequent retrieval in a self-regulated value-directed remembering paradigm. Participants were given 2 min to study lists of words that varied in explicit value and then were asked to freely rec...

Strategic Capacity Investment Under Uncertainty

Contrary to most of the papers in the literature of investment under uncertainty we study models that not only capture the timing, but also the size of the investment. We consider a monopoly setting as well as a duopoly setting and compare the results with the standard models in which the firms do not have the capacity choice. Our main results are the following. First, for low uncertainty value...