utility function

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utility function

n
(Economics) a function relating specific goods and services in an economy to individual preferences
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To evaluate the performance of hybrid vehicular network framework, a unified vehicular network utility function [OMEGA] is defined as
For an individual, the monetary value of his social environment is not constructed as a positive or negative externality, because it enters the utility function in its maximization calculation.
By this definition, visual satisfaction level could be modeled as a utility function of variables describing the physical conditions, and preference is a comparative result of comparing the utility values corresponding to two (or more) conditions.
In addition, the evaluation of the feasibility and convergence as well as the development of utility function was also conducted to improve the user performance on cognitive femtocell network.
It reads your utility function; it knows exactly what preferences you have, what you like what you don't like, your desires and your passions; and it creates a virtual reality.
Some of them are chosen from the previous works and some factors are newly defined in the proposed utility function. In this paper, the utility function is also adopted as a decision-making criterion in the assessment and selection of parking.
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