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Taom Sakal, Stephen Proulx
How should a parent optimally distribute limited resources among its offspring? This question is as relevant to a mother bird deciding how to allocate food among her chicks as it is to a bacterium dividing high-quality organelles between its daughters. Optimal offspring size theory has long explored the tradeoff…
Chelsea J. Little, Pierre Etienne Banville, Adam T. Ford, Rachel M. Germain
Consumers shape spatial patterns on landscapes by amplifying or dampening environmental heterogeneity through feeding, excretion, and movement of resources. The degree to which the environment is modified by consumers depends on species’ traits, including body mass, movement and foraging behavior, and habitat…
Chelsea J. Little, Pierre Etienne Banville, Adam T. Ford, Rachel M. Germain
Consumers shape spatial patterns on landscapes by amplifying or dampening environmental heterogeneity through feeding, excretion, and movement of resources. The degree to which the environment is modified by consumers depends on species’ traits, including body mass, movement behavior, sociality, and habitat…
Éva Kenyeres, Alex Kummer, János Abonyi
A subtractive clustering-based methodology is introduced in this paper, that is applicable to solve spatial resource allocation problems that often arise in waste management. To satisfy spatially distributed demands, resources have to be allocated so that they would have the same spatial distribution. They are often…
Javad Zarrin, Rui L. Aguiar, João Paulo Barraca
The next generation of many-core enabled large-scale computing systems relies on thousands of billions of heterogeneous processing cores connected to form a single computing unit. In such large-scale computing environments, resource management is one of the most challenging, and complex issues for efficient resource…
Christoph Netz, Aparajitha Ramesh, Franz J. Weissing
Ideal free distribution theory attempts to predict the distribution of well-informed (‘ideal’) and unconstrained (‘free’) foragers in space based on adaptive individual decisions. When individuals differ in competitive ability, a whole array of equilibrium distributions is possible, and it is unclear which of these…
Prasanta Kumar Bal, Sudhir Kumar Mohapatra, Tapan Kumar Das, Kathiravan Srinivasan + 3 more
'Kathiravan Srinivasan' 'Yuh-Chung Hu' 'Robert Hsu' 'Naveen Chilamkurti'] The rapid growth of cloud computing environment with many clients ranging from personal users to big corporate or business houses has become a challenge for cloud organizations to handle the massive volume of data and various resources in the…
Adriana Mijuskovic, Alessandro Chiumento, Rob Bemthuis, Adina Aldea + 2 more
'Paul Havinga' 'Taehong Kim'] Processing IoT applications directly in the cloud may not be the most efficient solution for each IoT scenario, especially for time-sensitive applications. A promising alternative is to use fog and edge computing, which address the issue of managing the large data bandwidth needed by end…
Jiaxiao Zheng, Albert Banchs, Gustavo de Veciana
—Network slicing is a key capability for next generation mobile networks. It enables one to cost effectively customize logical networks over a shared infrastructure. A critical component of network slicing is resource allocation, which needs to ensure that slices receive the resources needed to suppor t their…
Bei Cheng, Dongmei Li, Xiaojun Zhu, Nasir Ayub
Cloud environment handles heterogeneous services, data, and users collaborating on different technologies and resource scheduling strategies. Despite its heterogeneity, the optimality in load scheduling and data distribution is paused due to unattended requests for a prolonged time. This article addresses the…
Virginia Pilloni, Luigi Atzori, Matteo Mallus, Giovanni Pau + 3 more
'Claude Chaudet' 'Dixian Zhao' 'Mario Collotta'] A significant role in the Internet of Things (IoT) will be taken by mobile and low-cost unstable devices, which autonomously self-organize and introduce highly dynamic and heterogeneous scenarios for the deployment of distributed applications. This entails the devices to…
Ansgar Lamersdorf, Jürgen Münch, Dieter Rombach
Distributing development tasks in the context of global software development bears both many risks and many opportunities. Nowadays, distributed development is often driven by only a few factors or even just a single factor such as workforce costs. Risks and other relevant factors such as workforce capabilities, the…
Masoud Nosrati, Abdolah Chalechale, Ronak Karimi
Recent studies in different fields of science caused emergence of needs for high performance computing systems like Cloud. A critical issue in design and implementation of such systems is resource allocation which is directly affected by internal and external factors like the number of nodes, geographical distance and…
Glenn Ledder, Sabrina E. Russo, Erik B. Muller, Angela Peace + 1 more
Syntrophic systems are common in nature and include forms of obligate mutualisms in which each participating organism or component of an organism obtains from the other an essential nutrient or metabolic product that it cannot provide for itself. Models of how these complementary resources are allocated between…
Geert Aarts, John R. Fieberg, Andries Richter, Jan Jaap Poos + 8 more
Overexploitation of a shared resource is a frequent phenomenon among groups of selfish consumers, known as the ‘tragedy of the commons’. To avoid “self-damage through self-interest”, humans may either defend exclusive access to resources, or collectively adopt advanced cooperative behaviour and carefully designed…
Fatemeh Rahmani, Javad Hassannataj Joloudari, Shahab S. Band, Seyedakbar Mostafavi
Fatemeh Rahmani 1 , Javad Hassannataj Joloudari2,3, Shahab Shamshirband4,5, Seyedakbar Mostafavi1,\* 1 Department of Computer Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran 2 Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Birjand, Birjand 9717434765, Iran 3 Department of Information Technology…
Mohamed Abu Sharkh, Manar Jammal, Abdallah Shami, Abdelkader Ouda
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Toby Walsh
How do we allocate scarce resources? How do we fairly allocate costs? These are two pressing challenges facing society today. I discuss two recent projects at NICTA concerning resource and cost allocation. In the first, we have been working with FoodBank Local, a social startup working in collaboration with food bank…
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Computing the free energy of protein-ligand binding by employing molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is becoming a valuable tool in the early stages of drug discovery. However, the cost and complexity of such simulations are often prohibitive for high-throughput studies. We present an automated workflow for the…
David Carrascal, Elisa Rojas, Juan A. Carral, Isaias Martinez-Yelmo + 1 more
The current society is becoming increasingly interconnected and hyper-connected. Communication networks are advancing, as well as logistics networks, or even networks for the transportation and distribution of natural resources. One of the key benefits of the evolution of these networks is to bring consumers closer to…
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In the United States, people of color are disproportionately and unjustly exposed to air pollution. Historically, environmental policy has emphasized aggregate emission reductions; yet major emission reduction scenarios do not sufficiently mitigate relative exposure disparities. Here, we show that without focusing on…
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Background: Pharmaceutical batch scheduling in multi-reactor configurations presents complex optimization challenges under operational uncertainty, yet limited research addresses how parallel processing capacity affects heuristic performance and predictive modeling. Objectives: This study investigated scheduling…
Lev V. Kalmykov, Vyacheslav L. Kalmykov
The biodiversity paradox is the central problem in theoretical ecology. The paradox consists in the contradiction between the competitive exclusion principle and the observed biodiversity. This contradiction is the key subject of the long-standing and continuing biodiversity debates. The paradox impedes our insights…
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This work establishes theoretical foundations for hierarchical quantum-classical algorithm design, where complex problems are decomposed across multiple spatial, temporal, or organizational scales with quantum and classical computation assigned to appropriate levels. We develop a mathematical framework that…