water markets are instrumental in efficient allocation and pricing of scarce water by enhancing allocative and price efficiency of water use. the prerequisites for water market formation are tradable water rights independent from ownership of the land, extensive water canals, water use associations, and adequate market regulations. mojen water market has been facilitating exchange of alternativ...

In multicluster systems, and more generally in grids, jobs may require co-allocation, that is, the simultaneous or coordinated access of single applications to resources of possibly multiple types in multiple locations managed by different resource managers. Co-allocation presents new challenges to resource management in grids, such as locating sufficient resources in geographically distributed...

We introduce a two-stage universal transform code for image compression. The code combines Karhunen-Lo eve transform coding with weighted universal bit allocation (WUBA) 1] in a two-stage algorithm analogous to the algorithm for weighted universal vector quantization (WUVQ) 2, 3]. The encoder uses a collection of transform / bit allocation pairs rather than a single transform / bit allocation p...

To date closed form solutions for optimal finish time and job allocation are largely obtained only for network topologies with a single load originating (root) processor. However in large-scale data intensive problems with geographically distributed resources, load is generated from multiple sources. This paper introduces a new divisible load scheduling strategy for single level tree networks w...