Many On-Demand Services function as utilities.
In response to this problem, Christensen (2004) modified his argument by restricting the assumption about the sanctioning of bets to "simple agents" who value only money, value it linearly, etc., so that monetary payoffs function as utilities for them.
Selection buttons lead to the following options: searches, statistics, forum and upload function, as well as utilities, such as FAQs, links and management windows.
In addition, these cloud based 12-lead ECG processing, visualization, and management can function as utility computing to assist rural clinics without PACS, HIS, vendor-specific ECG viewers or additional telemedicine equipments.
We focus on the applicability in different fading environments, comparing the overall performance with respect to a network-wide utility function as well as the performance of cell-edge users.
In addition, patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments have been increasingly utilized to supplement to the clinical measures and provide additional information on other health-related quality of life (HRQOL) domains (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, social, emotional, and physical functions) as well as health utilities [ 5, 11- 14].
We adopt logarithmic function as user utility function.
Let us consider the α-fair function as the utility function to be used in (11).
We use an exponential function as the utility function, i.e., U x)=−a x,a∈ 0,1), for its upward concavity and monotonically increasing feature in the whole real set.
As described in [14, 27, 34, 35], the application of the α-fair function as a utility function in the objective (11) leads to a resource allocation where the parameter α controls the degree of fairness of the allocation.
First, erase regulatory and tax incentives for short-termism and restore Wall Street's function as a utility and provider of capital to industry.
