From clean toilets to working computers, your company incurs many costs that it cannot assign to one particular "cost object" -- a product, project, department or service. You must nonetheless cover ...

Reliability allocation methods play a pivotal role in engineering, serving as the means by which system-level reliability requirements are systematically distributed among individual subsystems and ...

Insufficient flexibility is a major barrier to the development of new power systems. Leveraging the resource allocation function of the electricity market is a promising way to enhance the flexibility ...

The carbon quota allocation scheme serves as the fundamental backbone for ensuring the smooth and sustainable operation of the carbon market. Despite numerous prior studies, ongoing debates persist ...

From a reader who is a dear friend of mine: There are obvious many disparate approaches to asset allocation. Similar to the disparate approaches of any style of investing, each asset allocation ...

Abstract: We propose several pre-allocation size adjusting methods that can prevent the file fragmentation of files at arbitrary sizes depending on the growing file size. The proposed methods use ...