We introduce the concept of budget games. Players choose a set of tasks and each task has a certain demand on every resource in the game. Each resource has a budget. If the budget is not enough to satisfy the sum of all demands, it has to be shared between the tasks. We study strategic budget games, where the budget is shared proportionally. We also consider a variant in which the order of the ...

We consider a problem commonly faced in the nuclear power industry, involving annual selection of plant capital investments under the constraints of a limited and uncertain budget. When the budget is assumed known, a typical approach to such problems is built on a multi-dimensional knapsack model. This model takes as input the available budget in each year, the stream of liabilities induced by ...

This paper deals with multi-period project portfolio selection problem. In this problem, the available budget is invested on the best portfolio of projects in each period such that the net profit is maximized. We also consider more realistic assumptions to cover wider range of applications than those reported in previous studies. A novel mathematical model is presented to solve the problem, con...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a budget-based RTAI (Real-Time Application Interface) implementation for real-time tasks over Linux on x86 architectures, where RTAI provides a light-weight, high-performance interface for hard and soft real-time tasks over Linux. Our revised RTAI API’s are extended to enable programmers to specify a computation budget for each task, and backward compatib...

This paper describes and demonstrates the derivation of a system of demands for activity participation by applying microeconomic theory in a time-price setting. Both time and money constraints are incorporated explicitly and the integer nature of demand observations is accommodated via a multivariate negative binomial stochastic specification. A model based on this theory is calibrated, providi...

We developed an automated method using depth and one axis of body acceleration data recorded by animal-borne data loggers to identify activities of penguins over long-term deployments. Using this technique, we evaluated the activity time budget of emperor penguins (n = 10) both in water and on sea ice during foraging trips in chick-rearing season. During the foraging trips, emperor penguins alt...

When the Albany State men's soccer coach, Bill Schicffelin, looked at his team's schedule, he saw conference games against New York State ranked Plattsburgh and Cortland followed by Division I Mart wick. "How we do in these three games determines if we are in the driver's seat or the caboose for the rest of the season," said Schieffelln. On Wednesday, the Greut Danes put the key in the driver's...

كانت اللغة العربية عاشت منذ زمان طويل وانحدرت من لغة أسبق منها. وتلك هي التى اختلف فيها اللغويون والمؤرخون هل هذه أو تلك. ومن خلال هذا البحث الوجيز تقدم الكاتبة رأيا يؤيد أن قريبة العلاقة باللغة السامية الأم. وهي منحدرة إحدى فريقيها القديمة أي الباقية، حيث ماتت وزالت الأخرى إلا ما وجدت فى النقوش المكتوبة. شرح أيضا أحوال قبل مجيئ الإسلام مفرداتها وجملها واستخدامها مجتمع العرب.