Making green power purchase agreements more predictable and reliable for companies

Making European Merger Policy More Predictable

Green Business and Online Price Premiums: Will Consumers Pay More to Purchase from Environmentally Friendly Technology Companies?

This study explores the “green” business model for the digital economy. Specifically, it asks whether online consumers will pay more to purchase from a company that they perceive to be socially responsible when it comes to the environment. We conduct an experiment where consumers are presented with different facts regarding the environmental practices of a fictional online retailer of digital m...

Components, Contracts and Vocabularies - Making Dynamic Component Assemblies more Predictable

In recent years, dynamic component-based systems such as OSGi and its derivatives have become very successful. This has created new challenges for verification. Assemblies are created and modified dynamically at runtime, but many existing techniques such as unit testing are designed for buildtime verification. Runtime verification is usually restricted to type checks. We propose a simple compon...

Making Shared Caches More Predictable on Multicore Platforms

In safety-critical cyber-physical systems, the usage of multicore platforms has been hampered by problems due to interactions across cores through shared hardware. The inability to precisely characterize such interactions can lead to worst-case execution time pessimism that is so great, the extra processing capacity of additional cores is entirely negated. In this paper, several techniques are ...

Methodologies and Toolflows for the Predictable Design of Reliable and Low-Power NoCs

Academic Year 2013. . To Paola, because no matter what it has always been the two of us.