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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 8 days 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