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Data Center Cost Optimization Via Workload Modulation Under Real-World Electricity Pricing
Cheng Wang, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Qian Wang +2
We formulate optimization problems to study how data centers might modulate their power demands for cost-effective operation taking into account three key complex features exhibite…
Multicategory Crowdsourcing Accounting for Plurality in Worker Skill and Intention, Task Difficulty, and Task Heterogeneity
Aditya Kurve, David J Miller, George Kesidis
Crowdsourcing allows to instantly recruit workers on the web to annotate image, web page, or document databases. However, worker unreliability prevents taking a workers responses a…
Behavior in a Shared Resource Game with Cooperative, Greedy, and Vigilante Players
Christopher Griffin, George Kesidis
We study a problem of trust in a distributed system in which a common resource is shared by multiple parties. In such naturally information-limited settings, parties abide by a beh…
Modeling and Control of Rare Segments in BitTorrent with Epidemic Dynamics
Christopher Griffin, George Kesidis, Panayotis Antoniadis +1
Despite its existing incentives for leecher cooperation, BitTorrent file sharing fundamentally relies on the presence of seeder peers. Seeder peers essentially operate outside the…
Clustering Consumption in Queues: A Scalable Model for Electric Vehicle Scheduling
Mahnoosh Alizadeh, George Kesidis, Anna Scaglione
In this paper, we introduce a scalable model for the aggregate electricity demand of a fleet of electric vehicles, which can provide the right balance between model simplicity and…
Variation of "The effect of caching on a model of content and access provider revenues in information-centric networks"
George Kesidis
This is a variation of the two-sided market model of [10]: Demand D is concave in \tilde{D} in (16) of [10] So, in (5) of [10] and after Theorem 2, take the parametric case 0 < a <…