Computational Grids enable the coordinated and aggregated use of geographically distributed resources, often owned by autonomous organizations, for solving largescale problems in science, engineering, and commerce. However, application composition, resource management, and scheduling in these environments are complex undertakings [18,30]. This is due to the geographic distribution of resources ...

Conventionally, interference protection among radio spectrum users is guaranteed through a policy of spectrum licensing that provides exclusive access to licensed users. However, as it is becoming extremely difficult to satisfy the growing demand for radio spectrum with this conventional policy, a flexible policy that can improve radio spectrum access and utilization without causing interferenc...

Natural disasters always generate an overwhelming amount of debris. Reusing and recycling waste from disasters are essential for sustainable debris management. Before recycling the debris, it is necessary to sort this mixed waste. To perform the sorting process efficiently, a Temporary Disaster Debris Management Site (TDDMS) is required, and the selection of TDDMS is a multi-criteria decision-m...

Philosophers, psychologists, and economists have long argued that certain decision rights carry not only instrumental value but may also be valuable for their own sake. The ideas of autonomy, freedom, and liberty derive their intuitive appeal – at least partly – from an assumed positive intrinsic value of decision rights. Proving the existence of this value and measuring its size, however, is i...

Countries differ in their governmental architectures and in the rules that describe the allocation of tasks, rights and duties across the various levels of government. In this paper, we present a short and selective survey of the development of the theory of optimal allocation of rights and duties along the vertical dimension in federations. We thereby first discuss the multiple trade-offs brou...

The land tenure reform is important for forest resource management worldwide. Since China initiated a new round of collective forestland (CFTR) in 2003, improving output by clarifying property rights plays crucial role realizing sustainable management. Using survey data 312 bamboo plantation households from Southern China, this paper empirically examines the impact path on resources. estimation...