We Can Do Better

We must--and we can--do better.

PL480 Food Aid: We Can Do Better

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Can we do better than dobutamine?

Rethinking Eventual Consistency: Can we do better?

Today's data-driven internet-facing applications pose unprecedented challenges to the database systems that back these application. In addition to the immense scale of data, thousands of concurrent requests, and low latency response, these applications also strive for 24X7 availability. The big data serving systems empowering these applications must therefore have low request latencies, be high...

When can we do better than autarky?

This paper provides a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of nonautarkic contract in a risk sharing model with two-sided lack of commitment. Verifying the condition takes just one Gaussian elimination of a matrix. Published by Elsevier B.V.