Sentence examples for by a utility function from inspiring English sources
This "rational optimization" assumption is untestable, however, without additional assumptions about why and how consumers care about their level of consumption; therefore consumers' preferences are assumed to be captured by a utility function.
The preference of activation strategy can be modeled by a utility function.
This is represented by a utility function (U) with the standard consumption (C) and leisure (L) arguments.
The tradeoff between consumption utility and the disutility from the climate change which is summarized by the total stock of carbon dioxide is expressed by a utility function.
We investigate the issues of fairness and total performance, which are measured by a utility function in the form of a weighted sum of link QoS.
The level of satisfaction with a flow rate s f is given by a utility function u(s f ), which is concave and strictly increasing.
By associating a utility function with the recovered data, they design a joint coding and scheduling scheme to maximize the expected utility gain.
Multi-objective management planning was implemented by maximizing a utility function with equal weights for NPV, scenic beauty, carbon balance, berry yield and habitat area.
In several academic studies, network selection was modeled as a single or multidimensional decision-making problem that was solved either by maximizing a utility function [3, 4] or minimizing a cost function [5].
By introducing a utility function defined as a weighted sum of user download delay and the caching cost, the joint user association and content placement problem is formulated as a utility function optimization problem which is transformed equivalently into three convex subproblems by applying McCormick envelopes and Lagrange partial relaxation.
If the notion of quality of experience (QoE) can be quantified by defining a utility function associated with an individual SVC layer of the video stream, the current design approach can be extended to maximize the total system utility rather than bandwidth efficiency subject to the given QoE requirement.
