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MANSCI
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Improving Supply Chain Performance and Managing Risk Under Weather-Related Demand Uncertainty
This paper considers a manufacturer-retailer supply chain for a seasonal product whose demand is weather-sensitive. The retailer orders from the manufacturer (supplier) prior to t...
Frank Youhua Chen, Candace Arai Yano
HPCC
2011
Springer
12 years 10 months ago
Achieving Performance and Availability Guarantees with Spot Instances
Abstract—In the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing market, spot instances refer to virtual servers that are rented via an auction. Spot instances allow IaaS provi...
Michele Mazzucco, Marlon Dumas
ECTEL
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Learning from Erroneous Examples: When and How Do Students Benefit from Them?
We investigate whether erroneous examples in the domain of fractions can help students learn from common errors of other students presented in a computer-based system. Presenting t...
Dimitra Tsovaltzi, Erica Melis, Bruce M. McLaren, ...
PSD
2010
Springer
154views Database» more  PSD 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Coprivacy: Towards a Theory of Sustainable Privacy
We introduce the novel concept of coprivacy or co-operative privacy to make privacy preservation attractive. A protocol is coprivate if the best option for a player to preserve her...
Josep Domingo-Ferrer
KDD
2008
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Automatic identification of quasi-experimental designs for discovering causal knowledge
Researchers in the social and behavioral sciences routinely rely on quasi-experimental designs to discover knowledge from large databases. Quasi-experimental designs (QEDs) exploi...
David D. Jensen, Andrew S. Fast, Brian J. Taylor, ...