ALGORITHMICA
1999
14 years 3 days ago
1999
Consider an on-line player who needs some equipment (e.g., a computer) for an initially unknown number of periods. At the start of each period it is determined whether the player w...
IJHPCA
2006
14 years 13 days ago
2006
Leasing computational resources for on-demand computing is now a viable option for providers of network services. Temporary spikes or lulls in demand for a service can be accommod...
SAC
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2005
ACM
Although in recent years the concept of leasing has become more and more popular in the field of distributed object-oriented systems, it has not yet been incorporated in the curre...