The development of cheap computing resources and an efficient networking infrastructure has led to the abundance of large computing clusters. Clusters introduce interesting resource management problems. A significant challenge for a cluster’s resource manager is to dynamically and efficiently allocate resources to competing consumers according to a configurable policy and to provide guarantees ...

This paper presents a preventive maintenance (PM) policy for leased equipment over a finite lease period L. Maintenance is entrusted to the lessor. The purpose is to determine the PM period T minimizing the expected total cost over the lease period in a context where repairs and PM actions are imperfect and have non-negligible durations. The leased equipment is periodically subjected to imperfe...

Medical laboratories that lease space for their operations will soon be affected by new guidelines from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) for lease accounting. The proposed changes are momentous. They will almost certainly increase occupancy costs with additional accounting and reporting burdens. The new FASB guidelines may also make leasing substantially less attractive than buyi...

the two parts of a lease contract cannot always assign the period of lease. sometimes it isn't mentioned any period in contract but they assert the smallest unit of time for assignment of the rental. therefore the civil low makes reputable the lease contracts that the period of rent is left unsaid in them for the same smallest unit of time. in 'spite of that the legal spirit of this a...

This paper studies dynamic spectrum leasing in a cognitive radio network. There are two spectrum sellers, who are two primary networks, each with an amount of licensed spectrum bandwidth. When a seller has some unused spectrum, it would like to lease the unused spectrum to secondary users. A coordinator helps to perform the spectrum leasing stage-by-stage. As the two sellers may have different ...

Why do manufacturer-owned car lessors lose so much money on leases, despite having proprietary information unavailable to other lessors? This paper explores how conflicts in organizational focus within vertically integrated firms can hurt subsidiary performance. To examine this, I identify the differences between the reaction of the captive leasing subsidiaries of automobile manufacturers to pr...

Despite the importance of leases in the US economy, and the existence of several theoretical lease pricing models, there has been little systematic attempt to estimate these models. This paper proposes a simple no-arbitrage based lease pricing model, and estimates it using a large proprietary data set of leases on several property types. We also define a new measure, the Option-Adjusted Lease S...

is leasing an automatic call distribution (ACD) platform from an eligible provider or from a third-party nonprovider must have a written lease for such ACD platform and must include a copy of such written lease with its application for certification, and that a VRS provider leasing an ACD platform from an eligible provider must locate the ACD platform on its own premises and must use its own em...

This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the choice by organizations to occupy green office space. We develop a framework of ecological responsiveness, and we formulate five propositions to explain why specific firms and industries may be more likely to lease green space. We test these propositions by analyzing the decisions of more than 11,000 tenants to choose office space in gree...