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CLOUD
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
A self-organized, fault-tolerant and scalable replication scheme for cloud storage
Failures of any type are common in current datacenters, partly due to the higher scales of the data stored. As data scales up, its availability becomes more complex, while differe...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
FOCS
2002
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithm for the Multicommodity
We present the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for network design with multiple commodities and economies of scale. We consider the rent-or-buy problem, a type of m...
Amit Kumar, Anupam Gupta, Tim Roughgarden
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HICSS
2002
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Designing Effective Incentive-Oriented Outsourcing Contracts for ERP Systems
Information systems outsourcing has been viewed as an attractive option by many senior managers generally because of the belief that IS outsourcing vendors can achieve economies o...
Kweku-Muata Bryson, William E. Sullivan
TAPIA
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Research experiences for undergraduates: autonomic computing research at FIU
According to Computing Research Association, during each year between 2003 and 2007, fewer than 3% of the US’s Ph.D.s graduates in computer science and computer engineering were...
Masoud Milani, Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Raju Rangaswa...
WINE
2009
Springer
200views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Pricing Strategies for Viral Marketing on Social Networks
Abstract. We study the use of viral marketing strategies on social networks that seek to maximize revenue from the sale of a single product. We propose a model in which the decisio...
David Arthur, Rajeev Motwani, Aneesh Sharma, Ying ...