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This paper proposes a demand-side pricing strategy to purchase regulation service. The demand-side regulation service has the advantage of lower cost and faster response to reduce the utility company's cost comparing with the traditional automatic generation control (AGC). Thus, it is necessary for the utility company to make a tradeoff between the demand-side regulation and the AGC to minimize the...
The cloud computing ecosystem comprises hundreds of providers, offering diverse computing services, incompatible APIs, and significantly different pricing models. Cloud application management platforms hide the heterogeneity of the services and APIs, allowing, to varying degrees, portability between providers. These tools remove technical barriers to switching providers, but they do not provide a...
The fourth generation of mobile networks (4G) must overcome the new challenges that have emerged with the explosive growth in demand for mobile traffic and the Internet of Things. Therefore, the OMNs (Operator Mobile Networks) should plan for upgrading 4G to 5G mobile network beyond 2020, which is the expected year for launching 5G. A techno-economic analysis and mathematic modeling approach was considered...
The cloud computing ecosystem comprises hundreds of providers, offering diverse computing services, incompatible APIs, and significantly different pricing models. Cloud application management platforms hide the heterogeneity of the services and APIs, allowing, to varying degrees, portability between providers. These tools remove technical barriers to switching providers, but they do not provide a...
Cloud Computing provides simplicity to its consumers by saving them the efforts to deal with their own infrastructure, environments or software. This simplicity relies on the shifting of problems from the client to the provider, introducing new paradigms (virtualization, scalability, flexibility, pay-per-use, etc.). This simplicity comes with a price for the consumer that may accurately, or not, reflect...
Conventions are often used in multi-agent systems to achieve coordination amongst agents without creating additional system requirements. Encouraging the emergence of robust conventions via fixed strategy agents is one of the main methods of manipulating how conventions emerge. In this paper we demonstrate that fixed strategy agents can also be used to destabilise and remove established conventions...
We present a method and a tool for devising adaptation plans for the deployment of software applications on cloud computing infrastructure comprising a combination of reserved and "pay-as-you-go" resources. Starting from a trace log that represents the expected workload pattern of the application, we exploit queuing theory results to synthesize an adaptation plan that manages the cloud elasticity...
Managing resources and cleverly pricing them on computing systems is a challenging task. Resource sharing demands careful load balancing and often strives to achieve a win-win situation between resource providers and users. Toward this goal, we consider a joint treatment of load balancing and pricing. We do not assume static pricing to determine load balancing, or vice versa. Instead, we study the...
We consider a two-period production and pricing model under a coupon recycling environment, in which a monopolistic manufacturer is able to produce and sell new, remanufactured and upgraded products simultaneously in the market. To attract consumers to return used products and promote the sale of upgraded products, the manufacturer offers coupons in the recycling process. We focus on the competition...
The research objective was to investigate reducing the rhenium concentration in Mo-Re alloys which would allow Semicon Associates to decrease the raw material costs while enhancing the electrical properties of a dispenser cathode.
This paper presents the study on the cost analysis for the Video-on-Demand (VoD) system exploiting the advantages of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architecture. Our objective is to tackle the problems in analyzing cost and to come up with efficient cost analysis model (CCAM) thereby enhancing the revenue to the system. We adopt a partially decentralized P2P architecture with a cluster based approach to find...
In this paper, a distribution pricing model based on package methodology is presented in which the distribution pricing method is studied and the distribution network costs are analyzed in detail. The cost of distribution utility is sorted into fixed cost and variable cost. The marginal cost method is used to allocate the variable cost and the accounting cost pricing method is used to allocate the...
Since the value measurement to knowledge-based economy has become a powerful tool, it is necessary to expose a theory analysis on value measurement to the technology-based knowledge product (the VMTKP). Based on the costs and benefit, we create the measurement formula, and build the value measurement model for the VMTKP. Whatpsilas more, analysis to the related influence factors, variables and parameters...
Process algebra are a set of formal languages that are suitable to describe concurrent and communication systems including Web services. Nowadays, although process algebra have been effectively exploited for modeling and verifying functional aspects of Web services composition, non-functional aspects have been ignored due to process algebra lack of capability of modeling them. Since execution of Web...
World photovoltaic industry has an average growth rate of 49.5% over the past five years. Chinese photovoltaic industry has a fast pace of growth at an annual rate of 400%. While our photovoltaic generation market is really small, the installation production is less than 2% of the battery production in 2007, 98% solar cells and components are exported to foreign countries. Thus, the serious lack of...
Electricity market is designed and operated based on secure power system operation. Cost of power system security is factored into the market clearing process of the standard market design (SMD) implementation in New England wholesale electricity market. Market experiences on congestion management and pricing in day-ahead and real-time energy markets will be reviewed. Challenges on cost-effective...
Along with the increment of disturbing loads in the power system, the effect on network that is brought by the power quality problems, become increasingly serious. Based on the market bargaining principles, the power price should be affected by the disturbance of loads. However current power price system fails to reflect the factor. Evaluation of load's disturbing property and analysis of its influence...
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