Nutrient load reduction is a well-recognized requirement for aquatic ecosystem restoration. However, decision making is difficult due to challenges related to uncertainty and the interaction between decision makers and modelers, including (a) the quantitative relationship between risks arising from different aspects and the fact that cost is not usually revealed and (b) the fact that decision m...

We give lower bounds for the batched predecessor problem in external memory. Given the underlying sorted set S of size n, and a sorted query Q of size x ≤ n, 0 ≤ c < 1, we study tradeoffs between the searching cost, and the cost to preprocess S. We give lower bounds in three external memory models: the I/O comparison model, I/O pointer-machine model, and the indexability model. Our results show...

We consider the problem of reduction of computation cost by introducing redundancy in the number of ports as well as in the input and output sequences of computation modules. Using our formulation, the classical “communication scenario” is the case when a computation module has to recompute the input sequence at a different location or time with high fidelity and low bit-error rates. We then co...

In a near video-on-demand (near-VOD) system, requests for a movie arriving in a period of time are grouped (or “batched”) together and served with a single multicast stream. In this paper, we consider providing near-VOD services when there is a cost associated with using a network multicast channel. We address the tradeoff between system profit, given by the total pay-per-view collected minus t...

Perfect knowledge of a user’s power consumption profile by a utility is a violation of privacy and can be detrimental to the successful implementation of demand response systems. It has been shown that an in-home energy storage system which provides a viable means to achieve the cost savings of instantaneous electricity pricing without inconvenience can also be used to maintain the privacy of a...

The paper studies distributed cooperative multi-agent exploration methods in settings where the overall benefit of an opportunity is the minimum of individual findings and the exploration is costly. The primary motivation for the model is the multi-channel cooperative sensing problem which draws from the inter-vehicular cognitive offload paradigm. Here, vehicles try to coordinate an offload cha...

Field inversion in F2m dominates the cost of modern software implementations of certain elliptic curve cryptographic operations, such as point encoding/hashing into elliptic curves. [7, 6, 2] Itoh–Tsujii inversion using a polynomial basis and precomputed table-based multi-squaring has been demonstrated to be highly effective for software implementations [19, 14, 2], but the performance and memo...

Across languages, certain logically natural concepts are not lexicalized, even though they can be expressed by complex expressions. This is for instance the case quantifier all. In this paper, we propose an explanation fact based on following idea: logical lexicon of languages partly shaped a tradeoff between informativity and cost, inventory expressions tends to maximize average minimize cost....

This study addresses the tradeoff between Vietnam's national poultry vaccination program, which implemented an annual two-round HPAI H5N1 vaccination program for the entire geographical area of the Red River Delta during the period from 2005-2010, and an alternative vaccination program which would involve vaccination for every production cycle at the recommended poultry age in high risk areas w...

We analyze a model of optimal capital structure and liquidity choice based on a dynamic tradeoff theory for financially constrained firms. In addition to the classical tradeoff between the expected tax advantages of debt and bankruptcy costs, we introduce a cost of external financing for the firm, which generates a precautionary demand for liquidity and an optimal liquidity management policy fo...