PROGRAM TO EXPEDITE RECLAMATION WHILE REDUCING COSTS

Reducing maintenance and repair costs in an interventional pulmonology program.

BACKGROUND In the current economic climate, hospitals and academic institutions demand that medical departments function in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Detailed business plans are necessary to build new clinical programs, and institutions have learned that new programs are associated with significant costs for purchasing and maintaining equipment. We report our experience with repai...

Leaky regions: linking reclamation hints to program structure

This paper presents a new mechanism for automatic storage reclamation based on exploiting information about the relationship between object lifetimes and points in a program’s execution. In our system method calls are annotated to indicate that most of the objects allocated during the call are expected to be unreachable by the time it returns. A write barrier detects if objects escape from one ...

GAO-11-445 Value in Health Care: Key Information for Policymakers to Assess Efforts to Improve Quality While Reducing Costs

Optimal Targeting through Uplift Modeling: Generating higher demand and increasing customer retention while reducing marketing costs

Courseware abstraction: reducing development costs while producing qualitative improvements in CAL

Courseware abstraction is an approach to CAL whereby the lesson author creates a general parametetized CAL lesson that is then applied to many concrete examples. This approach has the following advantages over alternative approaches to lesson development: it is cost efficient; it facilitates lesson verification; it encourages the provision of as many examples as are desirable; it simplifies the...