PID7: MULTITHERAPIES: TOWARDS COST-SAVING STRATEGIES IN REAL LIFE?

Identifying Real Cost Saving in Lean Manufacturing

Cost Saving Strategies for Bank Operations

Recent financial liberalization in Taiwan has caused local banks to face major structural changes. This paper examines the cost structure of 36 local banks in Taiwan using the translog cost function and attempts to identify suitable operating strategies for cost reduction and performance improvements. Results indicate scale economies for small and large-sized banks and scope economies for all b...

A Survey of Dynamic Power Saving Strategies in Real Systems

Energy efficiency and energy-proportional computing have become major constraints in the design of modern exascale platforms. Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) is one of the most commonly used and effective techniques to dynamically reduce power consumption based on workload characteristics. The focus of this paper is to survey several energy saving strategies designed for improving ...

Five-hundred life-saving interventions and their cost-effectiveness.

We gathered information on the cost-effectiveness of life-saving interventions in the United States from publicly available economic analyses. "Life-saving interventions" were defined as any behavioral and/or technological strategy that reduces the probability of premature death among a specified target population. We defined cost-effectiveness as the net resource costs of an intervention per y...

Towards Real Time Virtual Human Life Simulations

This paper describes an approach to construct interactive virtual environments, which are suitable for the development of artificial virtual human life simulations. Our main goal is to have virtual human actors living and working autonomously in virtual environments. In our approach, virtual actors have their own motivations and needs, and by sensing and exploring their environment, an action s...