The advent of virtualisation and the increasing demand for outsourced, elastic compute charged on a payas-you-use basis has stimulated the development of large-scale Cloud Data Centres (DCs) housing tens of thousands of computer clusters. Of the significant capital outlay required for building and operating such infrastructures, server and network equipment account for 45 and 15% of the total c...

Sow housing is a controversy issue in the swine industry. The conventional confinement housing system for sows, such as gestation stalls and farrowing crates have been used in the western countries for more than 30 years. Despite the advantages of confinement sow housing systems, concern over sow welfare due to restriction of movement has resulted in gestation stalls being banned in the Europea...

Housing market dynamics have primarily shifted from consumption- to investment-driven in many countries, including Australia. Building on investment theory, we investigated by placing demand at the center using error correction model (ECM). We found that house prices, rents, and interest rates are cointegrated long run under present value framework. Other economic factors such as population gro...

We investigate a portfolio selection problem involving an agent’s realistic housing service choice, where the agent not only has to choose size of house live in, but also select between renting and purchasing house. Adopting dynamic programming approach, we derive closed-form solution obtain optimal policies for consumption, investment, service, time present various numerical demonstrations sho...