In economic Grid environments, the producers (resource owners) and consumers (resource users) have different goals, objectives, strategies, and supply-and-demand patterns. Mechanism based on economic models is an effective approach to solve the problem of grid resources management. Grid resource valuation and allocation is one of the fundamental problems in grid resource management. The essence...

Electricity demand response refers to consumer actions that change the utility load profile in a way that reduces costs or improves grid security. The focus of demand response has mainly been on the commercial and big industrial sectors because of the large demand reduction that they can offer to the utility grid operators. Utilities are showing increasing interest in residential demand respons...

Analytical modeling is a capacity planning function often used to accurately project future computing resource requirements. However, many capacity planners ignore activity "outside of the box" network changes, human behavior, and changing requirements which can introduce latent demand to an upgraded system and adversely affect the results of their best planning efforts. What is latent demand? ...

in this paper, a hybrid method for limited resource allocation and leveling in complex multi-stage, multi-product and multi-period production planning problems with aim of lot-size determination and total cost minimization has been proposed. this problem consists of multiple products with sequential production processes that are produced in different periods to meet the customers demand. by det...

Current schedulers in the cloud computing platform are facing the performance requirement. However, due to lack of the theoretical and practical guidance on multi-resource scheduling, algorithms in the schedulers are neglecting the difference between resource demand vectors and resource demand flow, resulting into the large resource waste caused by fragmentation, with all tasks struggling with ...

We consider the problem of allocating multiple heterogeneous resources geographically and over time to meet demands that require some subset available resource types simultaneously at a specified time, location, duration. The objective is maximize total reward accrued from meeting (a of) demands. model this as an integer program, show it NP-hard, analyze complexity various special cases. introd...