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ICA3PP
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Performance Analysis of Preemption-Aware Scheduling in Multi-cluster Grid Environments
Abstract. Resource provisioning is one of the main challenges in resource sharing environments such as multi-cluster Grids. In these environments each cluster serves requests from ...
Mohsen Amini Salehi, Bahman Javadi, Rajkumar Buyya
CORR
2012
Springer
218views Education» more  CORR 2012»
14 years 2 months ago
On the Hardness of Welfare Maximization in Combinatorial Auctions with Submodular Valuations
We present a new type of monotone submodular functions: multi-peak submodular functions. Roughly speaking, given a family of sets F, we construct a monotone submodular function f ...
Shahar Dobzinski, Jan Vondrák
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Fair background data transfers of minimal delay impact
—In this paper we present a methodology for the design of congestion control protocols for background data transfers that have a minimal delay impact on short TCP transfers and c...
Costas Courcoubetis, Antonis Dimakis
ICS
2005
Tsinghua U.
16 years 22 hour ago
Continuous Replica Placement schemes in distributed systems
The Replica Placement Problem (RPP) aims at creating a set of duplicated data objects across the nodes of a distributed system in order to optimize certain criteria. Typically, RP...
Thanasis Loukopoulos, Petros Lampsas, Ishfaq Ahmad

Publication
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17 years 5 months ago
Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Decentralized Supply Chain Formation
In this thesis, we describe a decentralized supply chain formation problem where the supply chain planner or a central design authority (CDA) is faced with the decision of choosi...
Nikesh Kumar Srivastava