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This SpringerBrief reviews the existing market-oriented strategies
for economically managing resource allocation in distributed
systems. It describes three new schemes that address
cost-efficiency, user incentives, and allocation fairness with
regard to different scheduling contexts. The first scheme, taking
the Amazon EC2 (TM) market as a case of study, investigates the
optimal resource rental planning models based on linear integer
programming and stochastic optimization techniques. This model is
useful to explore the interaction between the cloud infrastructure
provider and the cloud resource customers. The second scheme
targets a free-trade resource market, studying the interactions
amongst multiple rational resource traders. Leveraging an
optimization framework from AI, this scheme examines the
spontaneous exchange of resources among multiple resource owners.
Finally, the third scheme describes an experimental market-oriented
resource sharing platform inspired by eBay's transaction model. The
study presented in this book sheds light on economic models and
their implication to the utility-oriented scheduling problems.
Solid cellular materials (foams, lattice materials, honeycombs,
etc.) are attractive and have resulted in the creation of an active
subject for structural, mechanical and material scientists in
recent years. Indeed, constant progress in the manufacturing
techniques are improving their properties and reducing their costs;
and mass productions and industrial applications are beginning. An
important mechanical problem is how to characterize and model the
mechanical behaviour of these materials, which is necessary for
industrial design and numerical predictions involved in various
applications such as light weight structures, energy absorbers.
This volume contains twenty-two contributions written by
distinguished invited speakers from all part of the world to the
iutam symposium on mechanical properties of cellular materials. It
provides a survey on recent advances in the characterisation and
modeling of the mechanical properties of solid cellular materials
under static and dynamic loading as well as their applications in
lightweight structures analysis and design. This volume will be of
interest to structural, mechanical and material scientists and
engineers working on different aspects of this new class of
materials (for example in microstructure observation,
micromechanical and multiscale modeling, phenomenological models,
structural impact behaviour and numerical validation).
Solid cellular materials (foams, lattice materials, honeycombs,
etc.) are attractive and have resulted in the creation of an active
subject for structural, mechanical and material scientists in
recent years. Indeed, constant progress in the manufacturing
techniques are improving their properties and reducing their costs;
and mass productions and industrial applications are beginning. An
important mechanical problem is how to characterize and model the
mechanical behaviour of these materials, which is necessary for
industrial design and numerical predictions involved in various
applications such as light weight structures, energy absorbers.
This volume contains twenty-two contributions written by
distinguished invited speakers from all part of the world to the
iutam symposium on mechanical properties of cellular materials. It
provides a survey on recent advances in the characterisation and
modeling of the mechanical properties of solid cellular materials
under static and dynamic loading as well as their applications in
lightweight structures analysis and design. This volume will be of
interest to structural, mechanical and material scientists and
engineers working on different aspects of this new class of
materials (for example in microstructure observation,
micromechanical and multiscale modeling, phenomenological models,
structural impact behaviour and numerical validation).
This book is based on the analysis of thirty episodes of the
American television series Friends with the focus on the
CSIs(Culture Specific Items) and how these differences have been
handled by Chinese translators who produced the subtitles for the
English-Chinese translation. The main objective of the book has
been to analyse different translation choices which are currently
used by the translator in questions, dealing with CSIs where
cultural differences between Mainland China and the US arise. The
research discovered the repetition of CSIs in a strategy which
underperformed, failing to help the Chinese audience to comprehend
the cultural connotations associated with the CSIs. The book has
provided some recommendations as to how the subtitle translation of
such CSIs might be handled in such a way that the audience will
have a better understanding of the same.
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