This article examines the serious potential for a clash between two sets of values: (1) the stated values of the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, that persons handicapped within its terms should not be denied access to decent housing on that account, and that mentally handicapped tenants, especially those who may have, but do not necessarily possess, a propensity for violence, have privacy ...

This paper explores a housing market with an existing tenant in each house and where the existing tenants initially rent their houses. The idea is to identify equilibrium prices for the housing market given the prerequisite that a tenant can buy any house on the housing market, including the one that he currently is possessing, or continue renting the house he currently is occupying. The main c...

Multi-tenancy is a relatively new software architecture principle, generally adopted when a software application is provided as a service (SaaS). Such new principle reduce considerably the application deployment and maintenance costs, as all customers(tenants) share the same instance of such application. However, to attract a significant number of tenants, the application has to be customizable...

Multi-tenancy and resource sharing are essential to make a Databaseas-a-Service (DaaS) cost-effective. However, one major consequence of resource sharing is that the performance of one tenant’s workload can be significantly affected by the resource demands of co-located tenants. The lack of performance isolation in a shared environment can make DaaS less attractive to performance-sensitive tena...

Shared storage services enjoy wide adoption in commercial clouds. But most systems today provide weak performance isolation and fairness between tenants, if at all. Misbehaving or high-demand tenants can overload the shared service and disrupt other well-behaved tenants, leading to unpredictable performance and violating SLAs. This paper presents Pisces, a system for achieving datacenter-wide p...

In cloud computing environments, multiple tenants are often co-located on the same multi-processor system. Thus, preventing information leakage between tenants is crucial. While the hypervisor enforces software isolation, shared hardware, such as the CPU cache or memory bus, can leak sensitive information. For security reasons, shared memory between tenants is typically disabled. Furthermore, t...

Th is paper presents fi ndings from our study which explored the price elasticities for domestic space heating energy of households in Germany. We focus upon the diff erence in price elasticities between homeowners and tenants found in previous studies in order to further elaborate on this. Using panel data from the GSOEP we perform fi xed eff ects and OLS regressions to examine the infl uencin...

A multi-tenant application in Software as a Service (SaaS) is accessed by multiple organizations called tenants who have several users attached to them. Multi-tendency enhances resource utilization by effectively sharing resources and reducing cost, increasing productivity and online collaboration. However, providing a secure multi-tenant access to various tenants is still a challenge. Traditio...

In this paper we analyze two house allocation mechanisms each of which is designed to eliminate inefficiencies in real-life house allocation problems where there are both existing tenants and newcomers. The Þrst mechanism chooses the unique core allocation of a “sister” exchange economy which is constructed by assigning each existing tenant her current house and randomly assigning each newcomer...

Multi-tenancy has shown promising results in achieving high operational cost efficiency by sharing hardware and software resources among multiple customer organizations, called tenants. In the context of cloud computing, this paradigm enables cloud providers to reduce operational costs by dividing resources and to simplify application management and maintenance. These benefits come with associa...