Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from Northern, particularly American, on which much of urban sociology’s conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them terms a standard vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way seeing. We need that is able to accommodate their experience. This special issue contributes work building vocabulary. select five keywords soc...

Participating in demand response programs is a promising tool for reducing energy costs in data centers by modulating energy consumption. Towards this end, data centers can employ a rich set of resource management knobs, such as workload shifting and dynamic server provisioning. Nonetheless, these knobs may not be readily available in a cloud data center (CDC) that serves cloud tenants/users, b...

Cellular networks are currently facing severe traffic overload problems caused by excessive traffic demands. Offloading part of the cellular traffic through other forms of networks, such as Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) and WiFi hotspot, is a promising solution since these networks can only provide intermittent connectivity to mobile users, utilizing them for cellular traffic offloading may re...

We examine the design of incentive-compatible screening mechanisms for dynamic environments in which the agents’types follow a (possibly non-Markov) stochastic process, decisions may be made over time and may a¤ect the type process, and payo¤s need not be time-separable. We derive a formula for the derivative of an agent’s equilibrium payo¤ with respect to his current type in an incentive-compa...

This paper examines the problem of how to design incentive-compatible mechanisms in environments in which the agents’private information evolves stochastically over time and in which decisions have to be made in each period. The environments we consider are fairly general in that the agents’types are allowed to evolve in a non-Markov way, decisions are allowed to a¤ect the type distributions an...

Background The dearth of health workers in rural settings in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) and other developing countries limits healthcare access and outcomes. In evaluating non-wage financial incentive packages as a potential policy option to attract health workers to rural settings, understanding the expected costs and effects of the various programs ex antecan assist policy-makers ...