Organizations owning a datacenter and leasing resources from public clouds need to efficiently manage this heterogeneous infrastructure. In order to do that, automatic management of processing, storage, and networking is desirable to support the use of both private and public cloud resources at the same time, composing the so-called hybrid cloud. In this chapter, the authors introduce the hybri...

Operating lease of the aircraft gives the airlines ̄exibility in capacity management. However, airlines pay a risk premium to the leasing companies for bearing part of the risks. Therefore, the airlines face a trade-o€ between ̄exibility of capacity and higher costs. This paper develops a model for the airlines to determine their optimal mix of leased and owned capacity, taking into considerati...

Leasing resources for short periods of time can be of great value to many applications. Applications consisting of workflows of small tasks (such as Montage [5], GADU [6] or fMRI [7]), can be more efficiently scheduled by a workflow engine (e.g., Pegasus [8] or Swift [9]) when using leased resources than when each request must pass via a traditional scheduler. Interactive applications (where th...

The residual value (RV) of a vehicle refers to its estimated worth at some point in the future. It is core component every auto financial product, used determine credit lines and leasing rates. As such, an accurate prediction RV critical for finance industry, since it can pose risk revenue loss by over-prediction or make product incompetent under-prediction. Although there are number prior stud...

This work proposes LEASE, a novel Mobile-P2P lease-based economic incentive model, in which data requestors need to pay the price (in virtual currency) of their requested data items to data-providers. In LEASE, data-providing mobile peers lease data items to other mobile peers in lieu of a lease payment. The main contributions of LEASE are three-fold. First, its lease model entices even those u...

Context & Rationale Despite a probable net reduction in the overall population since independence, there has been a small increase in the number of Armenia’s farming households. Many of these are relatively new and inexperienced farmers with very limited access to capital and farm inputs. Agriculture is the primary employer and accounts for about 28% of the GDP. Yet with few exceptions i.e. som...

Perlindungan hukum terhadap Debitor Leasing Dalam Keadaan Memaksa Pandemik Covid-19 khususnya PT. Federal International Finance dijamin dalam Peraturan Otoritas Jasa Keuangan No.14/POJK.05/2020 Jo No.58/POJK.03/2020 yang menjamin bahwa debitor memiliki hak mendapatkan kelonggaran cicilan berupa relaksasi apabila mengalami penurunan ekonomi dan kesulitan pembayaran diakibatkan oleh Covid-19. Fak...