There is an associated cost dependent on the equipment and personnel present at each branch.

Consider a network as a graph where each edge (i.e. link) has an associated cost of transmission, privately known to the owner of the link.

Each operation has an associated cost, and the goal is to find the sequence of edits with the lowest total cost.

Specifically, every regulation has some associated cost of compliance.

The hospital (upper management) will want the most surgical output with the least associated cost.

Like many activities for children, chess brings an associated cost, but it can be significantly lower than that of other popular pastimes.

Assume that every vertex has an associated cost of .

When the user's attention is diverted from one location to another to access necessary information, there is an associated cost in time or effort.

If this guess-our-phone-number game is intended to curtail calls and to keep associated costs low, it seems unlikely to thwart anyone.

Each unit has an associated cost.