We study a type of reverse (procurement) auction problems in the presence of budget constraints. The general algorithmic problem is to purchase a set of resources, which come at a cost, so as not to exceed a given budget and at the same time maximize a given valuation function. This framework captures the budgeted version of several well known optimization problems, and when the resources are o...

Ankur Sinha [email protected] Department of Information and Service Economy, Aalto University School of Business PO Box 21210, FIN-00076 Aalto, Helsinki, Finland Pekka Malo [email protected] Department of Information and Service Economy, Aalto University School of Business PO Box 21210, FIN-00076 Aalto, Helsinki, Finland Kalyanmoy Deb [email protected] Department of Electrical and Computer ...

MODFLOW is a groundwater modeling program. It can be compiled and remedied according to the practical applications. Because of its structure and fixed data format, MODFLOW can be integrated with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology for water resource management. The North China Plain (NCP), which is the politic, economic and cultural center of China, is facing with water resources sh...

ntroduced in 1948 by the Labor Party, Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is based on the principle that everyone is entitled to any kind of medical treatment for any condition, free of charge. The NHS is not insurance-based but is funded almost exclusively from general tax revenues. The aggregate NHS budget is fixed every year, based on the previous year's budget and adjusted for inflation...

This research was motivated by the realization of budget at Secretariat DPRD City Of Bandung in 2018-2020 which had not yet reached target that previously been set. study aims to find out how effectiveness, efficiency, adequacy, leveling, responsiveness, and accuracy refer William N. Dunn's theory planning managing Apparatus Facilities Infrastructure Improvement Program Bandung. The method this...

OBJECTIVE The 2004 US Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines do not recommend routinely screening adults for oral cancer given no proven mortality reduction. A large cluster-randomized controlled screening trial in Kerala, India, in 2005, however, reported a significant reduction in mortality for screened male tobacco and/or alcohol users. In the United States, office-based screen...

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