The dynamics of resource contention in multiagent systems with imperfect information can be extremely complex, ranging from nonlinear oscillations to chaotic behavior. It was shown by Hogg and Huberman that it is possible to stabilize such systems by allowing agents to follow different strategies. We now show that there is a wide range of possible strategies consistent with the existing equilib...

This paper describes two innovative and linked approaches to teaching and student learning in the environmental and development geography of the Mekong region, a region remote from students’ normal experiential options. The first approach is field-based learning through Field Schools carried out in Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. The second approach is a structured roleplaying web-based simulation ...

This is an article that will appear in the Encyclopedia of Optimization (Kluwer, 2000). It concerns optimization in two senses. The first is that informaion-based complexity (IBC) is the study of the minimal computational resources to solve continuous mathematical problems. The second is that the computational complexity of optimization problems is one of the areas studied in IBC. We discuss IB...

The System Resource Constraint Theory intends to research growth of economy under different classes of system resource constraint. By analogy between ecology system and economic system, from the angle of total nature resource, total supply ability and total market volume, the theory focuses on the constraint condition and development characteristic of economy as well as the various game charact...

Existing theories and models in economics and transportation treat households’ decisions regarding allocation of time and income to activities as a resource-allocation optimization problem. Arguably, this stands in contrast with the dynamic nature of day-by-day activity-travel choices. Therefore, in the present paper we propose a different approach to model activity generation and allocation de...

Despite the existing vast literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR), there is a lack of research influences CSR categories (i.e., employees; suppliers, customers, and consumers; environment; welfare). The objective this paper to investigate distinct firm innovation from resource-based theory perspective. Based sample Chinese A-share listed firms 2010 2017, we find that employee-, supp...

in this paper, downlink resource allocation for a sparse code multiple access (scma) based heterogeneous  cellular networks (hcn) is investigated. the main aim of this paper is to obtain joint power allocation and codebook assignment to achieve the least total system transmit power. in this regard, the proposed objective function is formulated as total transmit power subject to users minimum ra...

Task offloading and resource allocation are the major elements of edge computing. A reasonable task strategy scheme can reduce processing time save system energy consumption. Most current studies on migration computing only consider between terminals servers, ignoring huge resources in cloud center. In order to sufficiently utilize server resources, we propose a coarse-grained intelligent match...