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WSC
2004
13 years 9 months ago
A Stochastic On-Line Model for Shipment Date Quoting with On-Time Delivery Guarantees
The paper introduces a new model for shipment date quoting with potential applications in E-commerce. First, a customer sends to the vendor a request for an item advertised at a c...
Yunpeng Pan, Leyuan Shi
COR
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Short-term hydropower production planning by stochastic programming
Within the framework of multi-stage mixed-integer linear stochastic programming we develop a short-term production plan for a price-taking hydropower plant operating under uncerta...
Stein-Erik Fleten, Trine Krogh Kristoffersen
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The Effects of Untruthful Bids on User Utilities and Stability in Computing Markets
Markets of computing resources typically consist of a cluster (or a multi-cluster) and jobs that arrive over time and request computing resources in exchange for payment. In this p...
Sergei Shudler, Lior Amar, Amnon Barak, Ahuva Mu'a...
FC
2010
Springer
141views Cryptology» more  FC 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
When Information Improves Information Security
We investigate a mixed economy of an individual rational expert and several na¨ıve near-sighted agents in the context of security decision making. Agents select between three ca...
Jens Grossklags, Benjamin Johnson, Nicolas Christi...
CORR
2011
Springer
162views Education» more  CORR 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
Optimal Power Cost Management Using Stored Energy in Data Centers
Since the electricity bill of a data center constitutes a significant portion of its overall operational costs, reducing this has become important. We investigate cost reduction o...
Rahul Urgaonkar, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Michael J. Neel...