Purpose: Demand-Driven Distribution Resource Planning (DDDRP) has recently been proposed in the literature to deal with higher supply networks complexity, shorter customer tolerance times, and inaccurate forecasts. The DDDRP requires position inventory buffers critical network nodes, where level each buffer is replenished based on actual demands rather than demand This paper aims identify optim...

This paper uses quantile regression estimation techniques so as to investigate the relationship between resource funds, governance and institutional quality by paying special attention to the distribution of the latter. The estimation results indicate that resource funds are associated with better governance and institutions. The positive correlation is identified for the entire distribution of...

GOAL The goal was to determine the optimal strategy for screening coverage, test selection, and treatment for infection in asymptomatic women for a given family-planning-program budget. STUDY DESIGN We developed a resource allocation model to determine the optimal strategy using data from 5078 visits by women universally screened for infection in a publicly funded family planning clinic syste...

The learning task in a Learning Classifier System (LCS) is aimed at building a set of rules that work in coordination to accurately model a given environment. The addition of the hash symbol (‘#’) in LCS’s condition provides varying degree of coverage to environmental niches. Building a hierarchical set of rules, where accurate and more specific rules respond to a subset of the situations cover...

Digital content services have become a major source of information and entertainment for people, and the Internet has provided a means by which businesses and consumers can easily and efficiently distribute it. A large amount of this content is copyrighted or tied to a service, and sold commercially through multiple electronic and physical distribution channels. The modern day ‘gamer’ is expect...