In this paper, we introduce a new operating system abstraction called reservation domains, and describe its implementation in Eclipse, an experimental operating system that provides a testbed for Quality of Service (QoS) support for applications. Reservation domains enable explicit control over the provisioning of system resources among applications in order to achieve desired levels of predict...

We explore the significance of employee compensation and alternative (reservation) income on investment timing, endogenous default, yield spreads and capital structure. In a real-options setting, a manager’s incentive to under(over)invest in a project is associated to labor income he has to forego in order to work on the project, the manager’s salary, his stake on the project’s equity capital a...

In a laboratory experiment we show that minimum wages have significant and lasting effects on subjects' reservation wages. The temporary introduction of a minimum wage leads to a rise in subjects' reservation wages which persists even after the minimum wage has been removed. Firms are therefore forced to pay higher wages after the removal of the minimum wage than before its introduction. As a c...

Much work has been done on establishing resource reservations over the Internet 3, 2, 8], but almost all of this work has consisted of establishing a reservation that begins immediately and has indeenite duration. An important issue is how to request an advance reservation, a reservation made now for resources that are to be reserved in the future. In this paper, we propose an architecture for ...

Automated reasoning about the design of effective visual problem representations is possible when we adopt the view that visual problem representations, along with the perceptual procedures that humans use to manipulate them, can be described using information-processing models of the sort introduced by Newell and Simon (1972). This approach provides us not only with a means of characterizing v...

In distributed high-performance computing environments, resource reservation mechanism is an effective approach to provide desirable quality of service for large-scale applications. However, conventional reservation service might result in lower resource utilization and higher rejection rate if it is excessively applied. Furthermore, redundant reservation policy has been widely applied in many ...

Current distributed multimedia applications usually use either best-effort or reservation-based network bandwidth allocation for media data transmission. In this papel; we argue that end-system CPU reservation also plays an important role in media data transport. We present an analysis of the impact of CPU reservation on media data transmission tasks and its integration with the network bandwid...