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Cloud users have little visibility into the performance characteristics and utilization of the physical machines underpinning the virtualized cloud resources they use. This uncertainty forces users and researchers to reverse engineer the inner workings of cloud systems in order to understand and optimize the conditions their applications operate. At Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), as a public cloud...
Automatic demand side response is well applied and popularized with the development of active power distribution network technology. In this paper, with the specific condition of urban commercial centers considered, the generalized demand side resources co-optimization is presented here including load side resources and energy storage resources. Firstly, for the normal operation of power systems,...
In task allocation problems one usually only considers a single round in which players participate. In practice, many allocation problems are of repeated nature, in which players can decide to keep participating or leave. Players' participation, or behavior, influences the outcome, or social welfare, of these problems. In this paper, we use a fuzzy connective to model agents' behavior in regard to...
This article suggests the hypothesis that a higher competency in program and portfolio management is required for Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) within Special Economic Zones (SEZ), which is the special preferential economic and regulatory conditions for local and foreign companies to develop a programs and projects related to the growth of the social, trade, technological, scientific and innovative...
In this study, a spectrum allocation algorithm is proposed to reduce the cost and the packets loss rate in the communications between the utility company and the consumers. We establish a cost model based on spectrum allocation in smart grid. Specifically, the subbands are allocated to different data aggregator units (DAUs) according to the confidence level and the maximum cost requirements. The maximum...
Modern automotive embedded systems are developed by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) together with multiple suppliers. A key problem for a supplier is to allocate an OEM's requirements specification to their own subsystem design. This is a difficult manual task especially on complex systems and it requires expert knowledge about the system design. To address this problem, this paper presents...
Cloud federation paradigm can improve cloud service providers' (CSPs) profits by renting their idle resource to other federation members. However, these CSPs have the risk that they cannot fulfill their scalability commitment when some of their customers have large short-term resource demand. To reduce this risk, we design a reinsurance-emulated collaboration mechanism in a broker-based cloud federation...
Demand-side management (DSM) is an important theme in studies of the Smart Grid and offers the possibility of leveling power consumption with its attendant benefits of reducing capital expenses. This paper develops an algorithmic mechanism that reduces peak total power consumption and encourages prosocial behavior, such as expressing flexibility in one's power consumption and reporting preferences...
Majority of distribution tariffs in the world, price electricity through traditional averaging to avoid practical difficulties associated with advanced pricing strategies. This paper analyzes allocation of infrastructure cost, in a more absolute, practical and a cost-reflecting manner. It derives a time based price (TBP) per unit of energy from incremental cost of energy and allocates fixed cost to...
The high growth of companies in recent years has caused the transformation of local markets into global ones. The software industry is not stranger to this transformation and has been looking for effective ways to work in a distributed scenario. A critical activity in distributed projects concerns the assignment of tasks to remote teams. This is a multicriteria decision-making problem and can be supported...
This paper studies how the efficiency of an online platform is impacted by the degree to which access of platform participants is open or controlled. The study is motivated by an emerging trend within platforms to impose increasingly finegrained control over the options available to platform participants. While early online platforms allowed open access, e.g., Ebay allows any seller to interact with...
Ever since Chinese electric power reform in 2002, different live test approaches were introduced and applied in relative industries. There were at least 26 live test approaches applied in the field of power transformation, power transmission and power distribution. The essay introduced a comprehensive dynamic and flexible effectivity evaluation system, which helped to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses...
This paper studies 3 relationship, first relationship is between insider trading profits and the efficiency of internal capital market, made conclusion that the insider trading profit which made by director, supervisor, senior and the staff and relatives can effectively improve the efficiency of internal capital market; secondly, empirical evidence shows that the internal capital market efficiency...
The advances in Internet of Everything (IoE) and the market-oriented cloud computing have provided opportunities to resolve the challenges caused by the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure virtualization, capacity planning, data storage or complexity. The volume and types of IoT data motivate the need for a data storage framework towards the integration of both structured and unstructured data...
How does a search engine company decide which advertisements to display for each query to maximize its revenue? This turns out to be a generalization of the online bipartite matching problem. In this paper, search engines decide the strategy to allocate resources with an advertiser credibility factor under budget constraints. Based on the optimal algorithm, which is the notion of a trade-off revealing...
In the big data era, it is vital to allocate the vast amount of data to various users efficiently. However, the data agents (data owners, collectors and users) are selfish and seek to maximize their own utilities instead of the overall system efficiency. In this paper, the data trading problem of a data market with multiple data owners, collectors and users is formulated and an iterative auction mechanism...
Today's Challenge for many manufacturing companies is how to improve product quality and reduce the production cost of the products offered in the market. Quality improvement must be performed by a company to maintain its product's competitiveness in the market. Quality improvement and cost reduction can be performed by allocating investments to reduce the value of the variance in the component of...
Semiconductor wafer fabrication companies rely on continuously improving cycle time for agile manufacturing to maintain their competitive advantages. This study has illustrated how to apply data mining techniques, Back-Propagation Neural Networks (BPNN), to optimize the allocation of production resources in semiconductor wafer fabrication. The results in the empirical study have demonstrated significant...
Corporate risk disclosures as part of U.S. public companies' financial reports are mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since 2005. It provides forward-looking information about companies' future business and potential risks. This study analyzes risk types revealed in these risk disclosures and examines their potential implications on stock returns. Using 16,110 risk disclosures...
In this research, a make or buy analysis model is developed to determine an optimal set of processes and suppliers to minimize manufacturing costs, purchasing costs, quality loss, scrap cost and lateness cost considering the process capability, manufacturing capacity, customer orders, and the routing of the manufacturing process in the multistage manufacturing processes. The constraints of the model...
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