Shop rental growth assessments

Minimizing Rental Cost under Specified Rental Policy in Two Stage Open shop Scheduling Problem

This Paper is an attempt to study two stage open shop scheduling problem in which processing time of the jobs are given. The objective of the paper is to obtain an algorithm to minimize the rental cost of the machines in two stage open shop scheduling problem under specified rental policy. A numerical illustration is given to justify the proposed algorithm.

Optimal Two Stages Specially Structured Flow Shop Scheduling: Minimize the Rental Cost with Independent Setup Time

One of the earliest results in flow shop scheduling theory is an algorithm given by Johnson’s [1] for scheduling jobs on two or three machines to minimize the total elapsed time whenever the processing times of jobs are random. The present paper is an attempt to develop a heuristic algorithm for two stages specially structured flow shop scheduling in which the processing times of the jobs a...

Rental Properties

Rental harmony with roommates

We prove existence of envy-free allocations in markets with heterogenous indivisible goods and money, when a given quantity is supplied from each of the goods and agents have unit demands. We depart from most of the previous literature by allowing agents’ preferences over the goods to depend on the entire vector of prices. Our proof uses Shapley’s K-K-M-S theorem and Hall’s marriage lemma. We t...

Understanding Craigslist Rental Scams

Fraudulently posted online rental listings, rental scams, have been frequently reported by users. However, our understanding of the structure of rental scams is limited. In this paper, we conduct the first systematic empirical study of online rental scams on Craigslist. This study is enabled by a suite of techniques that allowed us to identify scam campaigns and our automated system that is abl...