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ICDCS
2011
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
Economical and Robust Provisioning of N-Tier Cloud Workloads: A Multi-level Control Approach
—Resource provisioning for N-tier web applications in Clouds is non-trivial due to at least two reasons. First, there is an inherent optimization conflict between cost of resour...
PengCheng Xiong, Zhikui Wang, Simon Malkowski, Qin...
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
104views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
An economic answer to unsolicited communication
We explore an alternative approach to spam based on economic rather than technological or regulatory screening mechanisms. We employ a model of email value which supports two intu...
Thede Loder, Marshall W. van Alstyne, Rick Wash
GECON
2008
Springer
152views Business» more  GECON 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
The Power of Preemption in Economic Online Markets
Abstract. In distributed computer networks where resources are under decentralized control, selfish users will generally not work towards one common goal, such as maximizing the o...
Lior Amar, Ahuva Mu'alem, Jochen Stößer
P2P
2003
IEEE
130views Communications» more  P2P 2003»
14 years 26 days ago
Peer-to-Peer Wireless LAN Consortia: Economic Modeling and Architecture
Abstract—In this paper we explore the incentive and architectural issues that arise in Consortia of Peer-to-Peer Wireless Local Area Networks. A P2P WLAN Consortium (PWC) is a co...
Panayotis Antoniadis, Costas Courcoubetis, Elias C...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
165views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 12 days ago
Computing optimal strategies to commit to in extensive-form games
Computing optimal strategies to commit to in general normal-form or Bayesian games is a topic that has recently been gaining attention, in part due to the application of such algo...
Joshua Letchford, Vincent Conitzer