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SIGCOMM
2004
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
The design and implementation of a next generation name service for the internet
Name services are critical for mapping logical resource names to physical resources in large-scale distributed systems. The Domain Name System (DNS) used on the Internet, however,...
Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Emin Gün Sirer
ACMICEC
2006
ACM
152views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Capacity allocation with competitive retailers
This paper addresses a problem in supply chain management that how scarce resources can be efficiently allocated among competing interests. We present a formal model of allocation...
Masabumi Furuhata, Dongmo Zhang
HPCC
2011
Springer
12 years 7 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
EDOC
2003
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
Compensation is Not Enough
– An important problem in designing infrastructure to support business-to-business integration (B2Bi) is how to cancel a long-running interaction (either because the user has cha...
Paul Greenfield, Alan Fekete, Julian Jang, Dean Ku...
PERSUASIVE
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Activity-Based Micro-pricing: Realizing Sustainable Behavior Changes through Economic Incentives
Abstract. In this paper, we further develop the idea of combining pervasive computing techniques with electronic payment systems to create activity-based micro-incentives. Economic...
Tetsuo Yamabe, Vili Lehdonvirta, Hitoshi Ito, Hayu...