Procurement Auctions with Capacity Reservation It frequently happens that a supplier needs to invest in building capacity prior supplying product. Then the buyer will need reserve from suppliers and pay for this advance of knowing final demand. “Capacity Games Supply Function Competition” by Edward Anderson, Bo Chen, Lusheng Shao studies very general version problem, which both production costs...

Increasing focus on power dissipation issues in current microprocessors has led to a host of proposals for clock gating and other power-saving techniques. While generally effective at reducing average power, many of these techniques have the undesired side-effect of increasing both the variability of power dissipation and the variability of current drawn by the processor. This increase in curre...

This thesis contributes to a better understanding of the behavior of queueing networksthat cannot approach a classical equilibrium state.We consider Jackson networks with unreliable nodes which randomly break down andare under repair for a random time. Our networks are described by Markov processesthe states of which incorporate the availability status and the queue-lengths vect...