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Efficient allocation of finite resources is a crucial problem in a wide variety of on-demand smart city applications. Service requests often appear randomly over time and space with varying intensity. Resource provisioning decisions need to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Muhammad Junaid Farooq , Quanyan Zhu

Efficient allocation of resources to activities is pivotal in executing business processes but remains challenging. While resource allocation methodologies are well-established in domains like manufacturing, their application within…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-19 J. Middelhuis , R. Lo Bianco , E. Scherzer , Z. A. Bukhsh , I. J. B. F. Adan , R. M. Dijkman

The problem of efficient resource allocation has drawn significant attention in many scientific disciplines due to its direct societal benefits, such as energy savings. Traditional approaches in addressing online resource allocation…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Georgios Chasparis

In this paper, the problem of joint radio and computation resource management over multi-channel is investigated for multi-user partial offloading mobile edge computing (MEC) system. The target is to minimize the weighted sum of energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Bizheng Liang , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu

The paper investigates stochastic resource allocation problems with scarce, reusable resources and non-preemtive, time-dependent, interconnected tasks. This approach is a natural generalization of several standard resource management…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Balázs Csanád Csáji , László Monostori

Marketing is an important mechanism to increase user engagement and improve platform revenue, and heterogeneous causal learning can help develop more effective strategies. Most decision-making problems in marketing can be formulated as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Hao Zhou , Shaoming Li , Guibin Jiang , Jiaqi Zheng , Dong Wang

In this paper, we consider the resource allocation problem in a network with a large number of connections which are used by a huge number of users. The resource allocation problem under discussion is a maximization problem with linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Anastasiya Ivanova , Dmitry Pasechnyuk , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Evgeniya Vorontsova

Assigning resources in business processes execution is a repetitive task that can be effectively automated. However, different automation methods may give varying results that may not be optimal. Proper resource allocation is crucial as it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Kamil Żbikowski , Michał Ostapowicz , Piotr Gawrysiak

In a fixed budget ranking and Selection (R&S) problem, one aims to identify the best design among a finite number of candidates by efficiently allocating the given computing budget to evaluate design performance. Classical methods for R&S…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Yuhao Wang , Enlu Zhou

In this paper, the distributed resource allocation optimization problem is investigated. The allocation decisions are made to minimize the sum of all the agents' local objective functions while satisfying both the global network resource…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Feng Liu

In this paper we consider multiple constrained resource allocation problems, where the constraints can be specified by formulating activity dependency restrictions or by using game-theoretic models. All the problems are focused on generic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-19 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Madalina Ecaterina Andreica , Costel Visan

We consider the problem of allocating a fixed amount of resource among nodes in a network when each node suffers a cost which is a convex function of the amount of resource allocated to it. We propose a new deterministic and distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Thinh T. Doan , Alex Olshevsky

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Masoud Nosrati , Abdolah Chalechale , Ronak Karimi

Economic dispatch problem for a networked power system has been considered. The objective is to minimize the total generation cost while meeting the overall supply-demand balance and generation capacity. In particular, a more practical…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Seungjoon Lee , Hyungbo Shim

In this letter we propose a method for sparse allocation of resources to control spreading processes -- such as epidemics and wildfires -- using convex optimization, in particular exponential cone programming. Sparsity of allocation has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Vera L. J. Somers , Ian R. Manchester

MPC (Model predictive control)-based motion planning and trajectory generation are essential in applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles, robotic manipulators, and rocket control. However, the real-time implementation of such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Haotian Tan , Yuan-Hua Ni

Given an infeasible, unbounded, or pathological convex optimization problem, a natural question to ask is: what is the smallest change we can make to the problem's parameters such that the problem becomes solvable? In this paper, we address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Shane Barratt , Guillermo Angeris , Stephen Boyd

Robust optimization is a popular paradigm for modeling and solving two- and multi-stage decision-making problems affected by uncertainty. In many real-world applications, the time of information discovery is decision-dependent and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Phebe Vayanos , Angelos Georghiou , Han Yu

Quick response is a widely adopted strategy to mitigate overproduction in the manufacturing industry, yet recent research reveals a counter-intuitive paradox: while it reduces waste from unsold finished goods, it may incentivize firms to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Panayotis P. Papavassilopoulos , Grani A. Hanasusanto , Yijie Wang

There is an extensive literature that studies how to find optimal policies in resource allocation problems, taking the underlying design parameters that define the allocation, such as what data is collected, how many people can be served,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Unai Fischer-Abaigar , Emily Aiken , Christoph Kern , Juan Carlos Perdomo