The Math Educational Resources (MER) wiki is an open online learning resource hosted at The University of British Columbia (UBC), aimed at providing math education resources for students and instructors at UBC. In this paper, we will discuss the motivation for creating this resource on the MediaWiki platform, key features of our implementation that support student learning (including the evolut...

Motivated by a project in health care management, we study the resource allocation problem in multisite service systems with inter-site customer flows. We aim at providing insights to and guidelines for resource allocation in these service systems when some service criterion, such as average waiting time, loss rate, or blocking probability, is a major concern. We develop analytical optimization...

The company’s proprietary electro-thermal-deactivation process destroys human pathogens without producing harmful airborne emissions and permits resource recovery. Stericycle operates on a multiregional basis, providing medical-waste collection, transportation, treatment, disposal, reduction, and resource recovery. FROM: Washington State Department of Health. Press Release: Probable transmissio...

This work is inspired by very challenging issues arising in space logistics. The problem of scheduling a number of activities, in a given time elapse, optimizing the resource exploitation is discussed. The available resources are not constant, as well as the request, relative to each job. The mathematical aspects are illustrated, providing a time-indexed MILP model. The case of a single resourc...

Resource information managers typically use fixed approaches to manage information. However fixed solutions to information management are complicated by the fact that computing environments are not all the same and even within a single computing environment the characteristics of the information and its access patterns may change over the lifetime of the system. These changes motivate this work...

This paper considers firms’ incentives to invest in local and flexible resources when demand is uncertain and correlated. I find that market power of the monopolist providing flexible resources leads to underinvestment in the flexible resource and overinvestment in the local resource. Moreover, investment responds to demand correlation differently under monopoly and social optimum. This implies...

The computer is a very specialized environment, but money systems have been flexible enough to survive in all kinds of environments. One benefit of using a money system is that they generally result in fair and efficient allocation. Another benefit is that each entity can make its own decision of how much each resource is worth to it. Lastly, money systems have advantages in distributed systems...

In this paper we present a framework defining the architecture of systems providing software components with means to contractualise their resource access conditions with their deployment environment dynamically. We also present the JAMUS platform, a prototype we have developed in order to show how our framework can be used to support the dynamic definition and enforcement of contracts binding ...

Although Britain's National Health Service has implemented a number of reforms designed to improve the quality of care in a cost-effective manner, healthcare litigation in the United Kingdom continues to increase. Resource shortages have prompted many patients to bring legal actions against the National Health Service in an attempt to compel a resource allocation, while other patients have sued...

Existing research into active networking has addressed the design and evaluation of programming environments. Testbeds have been implemented on traditional operating systems, deferring issues regarding resource control. This paper describes the architecture, resource models and prototype implementation of the Resource Controlled Active Network Environment (Rcane). Rcane supports an active netwo...