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Progressive optimization allocation model for carbon emission quotas: An empirical study of Jiangsu cities

Heliyon
The rational allocation of carbon emission quotas is crucial for improving the orderly operation of carbon markets. As a major energy-consuming province in China, Jiangsu's cities must allocate allowable carbon emissions effectively to meet China's 2030 ...
Bianshiyu Tao, Fengping Wu, Xiaoyu Wang, Wei Wang, Yufei Han   +4 more
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BALANCED CONTENT ALLOCATION SCHEME FOR PEERSERVICE AREA CDN ARCHITECTURE FOR IPTV SERVICES

Journal of ICT, 2012
One of the main problems in IPTV technology is how to manage the huge amount of multimedia contents efficiently to meet the demands of users especially for Video on Demand (VoD) services. Content Distribution Networks (CDN) are used to solve this problem
Suliman Mohamed Ahmad Gaber, Putra Sumari, Rahmat Budiarto   +2 more
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A Task Allocation Method for Swarm UAV SAR Based on Low Redundancy Chromosome Encoding

Leida xuebao
This paper addresses the task allocation problem in swarm Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems and proposes a method based on low-redundancy chromosome encoding.
Hang REN, Zhichao SUN, Jianyu YANG, Junjie WU   +3 more
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Up methods in the allocation of indivisibilities when preferences are single-peaked. [PDF]

We consider allocation problems with indivisible goods when agents' preferences are single-peaked. We propose natural rules (called up methods) to solve such a class of problems.
Ricardo Martinez, Carmen Herrero
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Gazing over the horizon: Will an equitable Green Climate Fund allocation policy be significant for the Pacific post-2020?

Pacific Journalism Review, 2019
The establishment of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has increased expectations and optimism amongst developing countries, especially those that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. The GCF aims to channel a significant portion of global funds for
Jale Samuwai, Jeremy Maxwell Hills
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An Improved Drift Theorem for Balanced Allocations

ACM Transactions on Algorithms
In the balanced allocations framework, there are \(m\) jobs (balls) to be allocated to \(n\) servers (bins). The goal is to minimize the gap , the difference between the maximum and the average load.
Dimitrios Los, Thomas Sauerwald
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Allocation problems with indivisibilities when preferences are single-peaked. [PDF]

We consider allocation problems with indivisible goods when agents' preferences are single-peaked. In this paper we identify the family of efficient, fair and non-manipulable solutions.
Ricardo Martinez, Carmen Herrero
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The Shiny Balancer - software and imbalance criteria for optimally balanced treatment allocation in small RCTs and cRCTs

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2018
BackgroundIn randomised controlled trials with only few randomisation units, treatment allocation may be challenging if balanced distributions of many covariates or baseline outcome measures are desired across all treatment groups.
Thomas Grischott
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Budget-Balanced and Nearly Efficient Randomized Mechanisms: Public Goods and Beyond

, 2011
Many scenarios where participants hold private information require payments to encourage truthful revelation. Some of these scenarios have no natural residual claimant who would absorb the budget surplus or cover the deficit.
Conitzer, Vincent, Guo, Mingyu, Victor Naroditskiy, Guo, M., Greenwald, Amy, Greenwald, A, Vincent Conitzer, Naroditskiy, Victor, Naroditskiy, V, Greenwald, A., Amy Greenwald, Guo, M, Conitzer, V, Naroditskiy, V., Mingyu Guo, Nicholas R. Jennings, Jennings, Nicholas R., Conitzer, V., Jennings, NR, Jennings, N.   +19 more
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Balanced collective contributions, the equal allocation of non-separable costs and application to data sharing games

, 2014
The axiom of Balanced collective contributions is introduced as a collective variant of the axiom of Balanced contributions proposed by Myerson (1980).
Solal, Philippe, Béal, Sylvain, Deschamps, Marc   +2 more
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