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Price Prediction Strategies for Market-Based Scheduling
(2004-06)
In a market-based scheduling mechanism, the allocation of time-specific resources to tasks is governed by a competitive bidding process. Agents bidding for multiple, separately allocated time slots face the risk that they ...
Exploring bidding strategies for market-based scheduling
(2003-06)
A market-based scheduling mechanism allocates resources indexed by time to alternative uses based on the bids of participating agents. Agents are typically interested in multiple time slots of the schedulable resource, ...
Why Open Is Important - Paul Courant
(2010-04-09)
Paul Courant, Dean of the Libraries, discusses why the concept of Open is important for higher education.
Work/Life Balance
(Sage Publications, 1997)
In this article, I contend that the well-intentioned discourse of work/life balance in the popular and scholarly press actually may undermine women's and men's attempts to live fulfilling lives. Drawing on feminist and ...
Economic Effects of “Leveling the Playing Field” in International Trade
(2009-09-10)
This paper uses simple economic theory to examine the effects of various policies that are intended to level the playing field in international trade. That is, when foreign producers are given advantages over domestic ...
Fairness and Secrecy
(SAGE Publications, 1991)
This article examines the law pertaining to secrecy in contractual bargaining and argues that courts decide cases more consistently with contractarian principles than with economic ones. The economic theory of law claims ...
Firing the Unproductive Employee: Will Civil Service Reform Make a Difference?
(Sage Publications, 1982)
Civil service reform included a set of changes intended to facilitate the firing of consistently un productive employees. This article describes the background and logic of these changes, reviews the status of their ...
An "Epidemic" of Adolescent Pregnancy? Some Historical Considerations
(Sage Publications, 1981)