As the cloud computing market matures, effective pricing design remains a challenging problem. Electricity is a major contributor to the cloud’s recurring costs and may increase significantly in the near future. As the cloud market gets more competitive, there will be a need for more cost-conscious dynamic pricing design. Additionally, today’s cloud provider’s pricing mechanisms act almost obli...

The growing popularity of cloud computing as a platform for deploying internet scale applications has seen a large number of web applications being deployed in the cloud. These applications (or tenants) are typically characterized by small data footprints, different schemas, and variable load patterns. Scalable multitenant database management systems (DBMS) running on a cluster of commodity ser...

In this conversation, organisers and base leaders Kenia Alcocer Leonardo Vilchis from Union de Vecinos the Los Angeles Tenants reflect on struggle for housing in beyon. They address issues such as eviction moratorium, necessity of providing full protection to tenants, efforts growing tenant associations, building movement infrastructure, scaling up movement.

Article history: Received 19 February 2007 Available online 30 October 2009 JEL classification: C78 D70 D78

BACKGROUND In Canada, public housing programs are an important part of governmental strategies to fight poverty and public exclusion. The Flash on my neighborhood! project is a four-year multiphase community-based participatory action research strategy currently implemented in six public housing developments (n = 1009 households) across the province of Québec, Canada. The goal is to reduce the ...

Objectives The aims of the present study were to examine tenants' experiences of a model of integrated health care and supportive housing and to identify whether integrated health care and supportive housing improved self-reported health and healthcare access.Methods The present study used a mixed-method survey design (n=75) and qualitative interviews (n=20) performed between September 2015 and...

While governing practices, as articulated in policies and other documents intended to shape tenants’ behavior, have been given considerable attention research, less has the self-regulation of tenants practice or how these governance practices are challenged resisted from below. The ambition our work is study deployed by housing companies two Swedish cities achieve compliance with extensive rene...