We introduce callable products into a finite-capacity, two-period sales or booking process where low-fare customers book first. A callable product is a unit of capacity sold at th...
—Current-generation cloud computing is offered with usage-based pricing, with no bandwidth capacity guarantees, which is however unappealing to bandwidth-intensive applications s...
A crucial goal for future Grid systems is to strive towards user-centric service provisioning. A way to achieve this is through the use of economics-based resource management. Cur...
Users perceive varying levels of utility for each different job completed by the cluster. Therefore, there is a need for existing cluster Resource Management Systems (RMS) to prov...
Businesses selling multimedia rich software or e-content are growing in the Internet. The e-content can be downloaded or streamed immediately after an on-line transaction. Since I...