An application’s quality of service (QoS) depends on resource availability; e.g., response time is worse on a slow machine. On the cloud, a virtualized application leases resources which are made available on demand. When its work load increases, the application must decide whether to reduce QoS or increase cost. Virtualized applications need to manage their acquisition of resources. In this pa...

A moratorium on further bivalve leasing was established in 1999-2000 in Prince Edward Island (Canada). Recently, a marine spatial planning process was initiated explore potential mussel culture expansion in Malpeque Bay. This study focuses on the effects of a projected expansion scenario on productivity of existing leases and available suspended food resources. The aim is to provide a robust sc...

Cache management is important in exploiting locality and reducing data movement. This paper studies a new type of programmable cache called the lease cache. By assigning leases, software exerts primary control on when how long stays Previous work has shown an optimal solution for ideal develops evaluates set practical solutions physical emulated FPGA with full suite PolyBench benchmarks. Compar...

In marketing durable goods, manufacturers use varying degrees of leasing and selling to consumers, e.g., cars, photocopiers, personal computers, airplanes, etc. The question that this raises is whether the distinction between leases and sales is simply one of price, or whether the proportion of leases and sales effects a firm’s ability to compete in the market. In this paper we use two approach...

Abstract By analyzing a hand-collected transaction-level dataset on the finance leases of China’s public firms for period 2007–19, this article sheds light leasing market, second largest in world. We find that banks use their affiliated to provide credit clients order circumvent government’s targeted tightening policy. In contrast conventional view regulatory arbitrage, our evidence shows that,...