Housing allocation problems deal with assigning indivisible objects (houses) to agents who have preferences over these objects. We examine the housing allocation problem with existing tenants, then with both new and existing tenants. In both cases, we present and evaluate an algorithm for assigning houses. We then consider a version of the housing allocation problem where agents are grouped int...

The expansion of telecommunication technologies touches almost all aspects life that we are living nowadays. Indeed, such technologies have emerged as a fourth essential utility alongside the traditional utilities of electricity, water, and gas. In this context, Cloud Data Center Networks (cloud-DCNs) have been proposed as a promising way to cope with such a high-tech era and with any expected ...

In SaaS Applications, the data of tenants are stored in the untrusted service provider side, this case increases the risk of data leakage, and becomes the brief reason to prevent people and enterprise from taking SaaS mode for their applications. Correspondingly, confidentiality-guarantee has become the key factor of its large scale promotion. In this paper we propose a general secure mechanism...

Integrating housing tenure in Instrumental Motivation Theory predicts a tenure gap in electoral participation, as homeowners would be more motivated to vote compared with tenants. The empirical question is whether this effect is causal or rather due to selection into different housing tenures. This question is tackled using coarsened exact matching (CEM) on data for 19 countries, allowing us to...

Abstract Incubator tenants usually lack established business relationships and legitimacy. Incubators, therefore, aim to aid in forming meaningful that will contribute their development. The literature on incubator tenants, including development, naturally focuses when they are an incubator. Valuable insights have been made how network-based incubation influences the performance of tenants. How...

A multi-tenant database is the primary characteristic of SaaS, it allows SaaS vendors to run a single instance application which supports multiple tenants on the same hardware and software infrastructure. This application should be highly customizable to meet tenants’ expectations and business requirements. This paper examines current solutions on multi-tenancy that provide flexible data model,...

We use a unique dataset from Malawi that matches tenants and their landlord counterparts to document the role played by absentee tenants, i.e. who reside outside area where rented land is located. found non-local made up 22% of in our sample. A significant subset them had higher off-farm income significantly more assets than did other tenants. Conversely, we 76% landlords because they needed ca...