In this paper, we address the problem of predicting the usage of home appliances where a key challenge is to model the everyday routine of homeowners and the inter–dependency between the use of different appliances. In particular, given an efficient day–ahead prediction of electrical usage, home energy management systems can suggest homeowners when is the best time to run appliances in order to...

In this paper I will discusses reflective transaction processing, a new research area that I believe has its potential. I start with a motivating example, i.e., using reflection as a mechanism to address the heterogeneity issues in distributed transaction processing. Other usages of reflection in transaction processing will also be briefly mentioned. I will then explain what reflection is and d...

In the context of joint operation China’s intra-provincial markets and inter-provincial trading, how to meet load demand energy consumption using renewable trading is a key problem. The combined provides new way for provincial power companies optimize clear market, complete responsibility weight index, consume across provinces regions. This paper combines generation within province, uses provin...

environmental characteristics, including the quality of green spaces, constitute one of the determinants of buildings (house & apartment) transaction prices. in this research, impact of urban green space on building's transaction prices (rials/m2) in karaj region, district 1 (jahanshahr), was analyzed. therefore, a questionnaire concerning building characteristics and transaction prices wa...

Oracle Materialized Views (MVs) are designed for data warehousing and replication. For data warehousing, MVs based on inner/outer equijoins with optional aggregation, can be refreshed on transaction boundaries, on demand, or periodically. Refreshes are optimized for bulk loads and can use a multi-MV scheduler. MVs based on subqueries on remote tables support bidirectional replication. Optimizat...

To test distributed software in the Internet we need many experimental sites in diierent physical locations. To ease the experimental setup, we have developed a facility for a study of distributed transaction processing in the Internet. The facility emulates remote sites by local machines, and emulates a true Internet communication environment in a local area network, by routing the inter-site ...

This paper presents a proof of correctness for Rococo, a new concurrency control protocol for distributed transactions. Rococo can achieve strict serializability without the cost of blocking or aborting. It executes a transaction as a collection of atomic pieces, each of which commonly involves only a single server. Servers first track dependencies between concurrent transactions without actual...

Price clustering is a well-documented regularity of foreign exchange transactions. In this paper, I present new empirical results of price clustering for central bank interventions. The empirical analysis for Swiss interventions uses a disaggregate approach. The most important determinants for Swiss National Bank (SNB) transactions are bank size and transaction volume. A further feature of the ...

Despite abundant literature dedicated to networks and coordination, few empirical studies address the internal operations of inter-organizational networks. This research therefore aims to characterise coordination mechanisms of various forms and analyse their evolution through an empirical analysis of six innovation networks. Three main dimensions determine the type of coordination adopted by a...