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Allais' paradox and resource allocation in telecommunication networks

Philippe Ezran, Yoram Haddad, Mérouane Debbah
2018 Telecommunications Systems  
By transposing this paradox to telecommunication networks for the purpose of resource allocation, we build examples of rational operators whose optimal choice cannot be described by the maximization of  ...  While resource allocation policies use various definitions for network efficiency and fairness, most of them are based on maximization of a utility function.  ...  TRANSPOSITION TO RESOURCE ALLOCATION Allais' paradoxes can be transposed to resource allocation in wireless networks.  ... 
doi:10.1007/s11235-018-0484-7 fatcat:n4mjmc7zuzbj5l4g2o4bvikt5m

The Internet's Unholy Marriage to Capitalism

John Bellamy Foster, Robert W. McChesney
2011 Monthly review  
Acknowledgments We received criticism and assistance on this piece from Vivek Chibber, Brett Clark, Matt Crain, Susan Crawford, Hannah Holleman, R.  ...  Jamil Jonna, James Losey, Fred Magdoff, Sascha Meinrath, Victor Pickard, Dan Schiller, Ben Scott, Derek Turner, Matt Wood, and Tim Wu. We cannot thank them enough.  ...  By conventional economic theory, concentration in markets in general is bad for the efficient allocation of resources in an economy.  ... 
doi:10.14452/mr-062-10-2011-03_1 fatcat:djyd73w3mvbhlftwfj7z72hj3a

Assessment of the impacts of extreme weather events upon the pan-European infrastructure to the optimal mitigation of the consequences

Maria Nogal, Alan O'Connor, Pieter Groenemeijer, Peter Prak, Maria Luskova, Milenko Halat, Pieter Van Gelder, Ciaran Carey, Kenneth Gavin
2018 Zenodo  
elements and networks.  ...  In this context, the European research project RAIN has studied the EWEs and their impacts upon land-based infrastructure in Europe, and developed a Risk-Based Decision Making Framework with the final  ...  Acknowledgements This project (RAIN project) has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no  ... 
doi:10.5281/zenodo.1436339 fatcat:2tea2i6nereidkvdvfve4kihua

Net neutrality - How relevant is it to Australia?

James Endres
2009 Telecommunications Journal of Australia  
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors benefited from generous assistance from colleagues and interns including Alana Maurushat, Reg Leones, Adam Arnold and Joanna Chow.  ...  I would like to thank Derek Slater, Carolyn Dalton, and Rick Whitt at Google for their assistance.  ...  for managing and sustaining the resources in an openly accessible manner.  ... 
doi:10.2104/tja09022 fatcat:iyhfeahrmverdoaskclswtokx4

Common Carrier Regulation. The Silent Crisis

Harry M. Trebing
1969 Law & Contemporary Problems  
See Goldin, Governmental Policy and the Domestic Telegraph Industry,. 'Value-of-service pricing occupied an early, crucial role in Bell's approach to communications.  ...  These strategies will also support sales at less than long-run marginal cost, with a consequent distortion in resource allocation.  ...  At this point, one is confronted with an apparent paradox.  ... 
doi:10.2307/1191092 fatcat:c24fnxhiljenndreduxy3wxvdu

System control of an autonomous planetary mobile spacecraft

William C. Dias, Barbara A. Zimmerman
1990 Telematics and informatics  
We also feel we have allayed some of these complexity concerns in the implementation section.  ...  In fact the command and control system design must walk a tightrope among the three paradoxically competing concepts of system autonomy, subsystem autonomy, and maximal ground control, each proffered in  ...  Whatever the ultimate solution to the apparent paradox among system, subsystem, and ground control, rover mission complexity will be reflected in the command and control system.  ... 
doi:10.1016/s0736-5853(05)80012-7 fatcat:hljkq36hxffo7aea5qb26osoqi

Security: Always Too Much and Never Enough. Anthropology of a Non-Starter Market

Dominique Boullier, Pascal Jollivet, Frederic Audren
2007 Social Science Research Network  
We observed security practices and reciprocal expectations, in this study the ones generated by the design of PKI devices.  ...  Using the framework of Actor Network Theory, we describe all the mediations required for sustaining a digital security chain... often based on very material stuff.  ...  Security implies sharing responsibilities and allocating blame.  ... 
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1802357 fatcat:3xvubn6exjddzdgly6qxazeqai

Contested Sovereignties: States, Media Platforms, Peoples, and the Regulation of Media Content and Big Data in the Networked Society

Pascale Chapdelaine, Jaqueline McLeod Rogers
2021 Laws  
This article examines the legal and normative foundations of media content regulation in the borderless networked society.  ...  We explore the extent to which internet undertakings should be subject to state regulation, in light of Canada's ongoing debates and legislative reform.  ...  Centre for Networked Media and Performance (CNMAP) in May 2021, Rafael Lemmens, as well as the anonymous peer reviewers for insightful comments.  ... 
doi:10.3390/laws10030066 fatcat:u5nvg6j3pze6jar7ccpfdumrhi

The Canadian Experience with Deregulation

Edward M. Iacobucci, Michael J. Trebilcock, Ralph A. Winter
2005 Social Science Research Network  
This paper was initially prepared for a conference on "Competition, Pricing and Natural Monopoly: Taking Stock of Network Industries" at the University of Toronto in May, 2003.  ...  We are grateful for comments by Jeffrey Church and George Hariton on the telecommunications sector. We are indebted to Roy Hrab for invaluable research assistance on the electricity sector.  ...  The three main sectors of the voice telecommunications industry -local fixed, or wireline, networks; local wireless networks; longdistance and international networks 4 -all currently make use of the PSTN  ... 
doi:10.2139/ssrn.704841 fatcat:vildwj2yybfntknbt3vizaii5q

Is FDI Integrating the World Economy?

Ashoka Mody
2004 The World Economy  
Capital flows through FDI increased substantially in relation to global productive capacity, the growing importance of the mergers and acquisitions component of FDI put domestic corporate laggards on notice  ...  Hence, though cross-country disciplines through bilateral, regional, and multilateral efforts are important in reducing the distortions that lead to misallocation of capital, but ultimately domestic efforts  ...  allocation of investment.  ... 
doi:10.1111/j.1467-9701.2004.00647.x fatcat:dn73v36kjfhjtmy5ve2sakdwd4

Assessing the Performance of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) 2001-2020: Another Failed Dream

Kaniye Samuel Adheledhini Ebeku
2020 International Journal of Law and Society  
The dream of OMPADEC was the transformation of the Niger Delta region from the state of poverty and underdevelopment to a prosperous society equipped with modern facilities and infrastructure.  ...  This article assesses this suggestion and concludes that the NDDC is another failed dream.  ...  Barilee Barisi Baridam of the Department of Computer Science, University of Port Harcourt, in the final preparation of this article. However, I take sole responsibility for any error in the paper.  ... 
doi:10.11648/j.ijls.20200303.11 fatcat:ekr2y66k2nblthqllm6l3axtx4

Sex and the Ivy League

Graciela Chichilnisky
2003 Social Science Research Network  
As a child I followed a peaceful inner path that led to matching professional and family lives. In harmony with my goals, I felt able to achieve what was important.  ...  I was a 'tomboy' attracted to masculine arenas and accomplishments, and did not think of myself as a woman. A good challenge is for me the spice of life.  ...  Here I showed, somewhat surprisingly, that the basic structure of the most important forms of resource allocation was connected with that of the social choice paradox that Kenneth Arrow had pioneered.  ... 
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1526088 fatcat:hgjlcdzk2ncj5afvlnaeln72iq

Communicable medicine: Cable television and health services

Kas Kalba
1973 Socio-Economic Planning Sciences  
in the community, and opportunities for much improved administrative communication.  ...  Such a system of video and data transmission offers better medical record keeping, faster medical testing and referral, opportunities for personnel training and continuing medical education for doctors  ...  its health needs: (1) the existing allocation of medical resources, (2) faulty approaches to public health education, and (3) inadequate modes of distributing health information economically to a heterogeneous  ... 
doi:10.1016/0038-0121(73)90027-x fatcat:zub6y7xnlrg7tbvkqr6rntyfkq

Fiscal Management in Myanmar

Zaw Oo, Cindy Joelene, Paul Minoletti, Phoo Pwint Phyu, Kyi Pyar Chit Saw, Ngu Wah Win, Ian Porter, Mari Oye, Andrea Smurra
2015 Social Science Research Network  
on ongoing and recently completed research and policy studies undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) staff, consultants, or resource persons.  ...  , reorienting fiscal priorities, and establishing a clear set of fiscal objectives in the Framework for Economic and Social Reforms (FESR), which was finalized in June 2013.  ...  Box 4: Resource Curse The term Resource Curse describes "the puzzling paradox suggesting that resource-rich countries tend to grow more slowly than resource-poor ones" (Brunnschweiler and Bulte 2008)  ... 
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2702379 fatcat:figvuzolzjgydhbrzq2udsnnau

Business and Social Networks in International Trade

James E Rauch
2001 Journal of Economic Literature  
It seems clear that there is net trade creation, which should yield the usual gains from improved allocation of resources, and that the network members themselves should capture a surplus from cooperation  ...  The efficiency implications of transnational networks would appear to be straightforward: they improve the allocation of resources by creating trade, and they generate surplus from cooperation for their  ...  An important question for future research is whether formation of new business and social networks can help us understand apparent hysteresis effects in bilateral trade, such as those found by Barry Eichengreen  ... 
doi:10.1257/jel.39.4.1177 fatcat:gw2v3uzem5es3nhhylbd23x6ry
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