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Web servers providing live coverage to events are hard to design due to a high degree of variation in the load, variation in geographical distribution of users and the frequency with which content is updated. In this paper, we describe an implementation of domain caching, a technique that dynamically distributes the load on the server by instructing selected clients (domain caches) to cache ser...

Web servers providing live coverage of events are hard to design due to a high degree of variation in the load, variation in geographical distribution of users and the frequency with which content is updated. In this paper, we propose domain caching, a technique that dynamically distributes the load on the server by instructing selected clients (domain caches) to cache server content and servic...

This paper studies the impact of the R&D offshoring of multinational enterprises on the firms in host emerging economies. We develop a two-stage non-cooperative game to analyze the strategic interaction between multinational and host country enterprises engaged in R&D investment. An empirical analysis of 12,309 manufacturing firms in the ICT industry in China shows that R&D offshoring has a pos...

Both observational and theoretical studies of black-hole activity or active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback have been ongoing since the first indication supermassive black holes powering quasar in 1960s. Although several crucial astrophysical questions answered following decades, a number open problems remain, particular how AGN operates over nearly eight orders magnitude - from scales $\sim 10...