Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles. This paper is a duplication of the original text from the papers cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper titles) and without permission. The misconduct was committed specifically by Abed Elhamid Lawabni, and his actions were done without the knowledge or approval of his coauthor. It should be noted that the above paper copied without credit from the following: "Heuristic Solutions for the Multiple-Choice Multi-Dimension Knapsack Problem" by M. M. Akbar, E. G. Manning, G. C. Shoja, and S. Khan, in the International Conference on Computational Science, May 2001. "Distributed Utility Model Applied to Optimal Admission Control and QoS Adaptation in Multimedia Systems and Enterprise" by Md Mostofa Akbar in his Ph.D. dissertation at the Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Sept. 2002 "Solving the Multidimensional Multiple Choice Knapsack Problem by Constructing Convex Hulls" by Md Mostofa Akbar, M. Sohel Rahman, M. Kaykobad, E. G. Manning, and G. C. Shoja in Computers and Operations Research, Vol 33, pp 1259-1273 "Building an Adaptive Multimedia System Using the Utility Model" by Lei Chen, Shahadat Khan, Kin F. Li, and Eric G. Manning in Parallel and Distributed Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1586, Springer Verlag, pp 289-298 "The Utility Model for Adaptive Multimedia Systems" by Sha- - hadat Khan, Kin F. Li, and Eric G. Manning