Partial servicing of on-line jobs

We consider the problem of scheduling jobs online, where jobs may be served partially in order to optimize the overall use of the machines. Service requests arrive online to be executed immediately;Every job must start immediately or be refused. the scheduler must decide how long and if it will run a job (that is, it must fix the Quality of Service level of the job) at the time of arrival of the job: preemption is not allowed. We give lower bounds on the competitive ratio and present algorithmsanalyze the competitive performance of algorithms for jobs with varying sizes and for jobs with uniform size, and for jobs that can be run for an arbitrary time or only for some fixed fraction of their full execution time

The Aerospace Energy Systems Laboratory: A BITBUS networking application

The NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility developed a computerized aircraft battery servicing facility called the Aerospace Energy Systems Laboratory (AESL). This system employs distributed processing with communications provided by a 2.4-megabit BITBUS local area network. Customized handlers provide real time status, remote command, and file transfer protocols between a central system running the iRMX-II operating system and ten slave stations running the iRMX-I operating system. The hardware configuration and software components required to implement this BITBUS application are required

The status of the Pebble Bed Modular reactor development programme

This report is an update on the status of the PBMR development programme

Household loan loss risk in Finland – estimations and simulations with micro data

This discussion paper presents a microsimulation model of household distress. We use logit analysis to estimate the extent to which a household’s risk of being financially distressed depends on net income after tax and loan servicing costs. The impact of assumed macroeconomic shocks on this net income concept is calculated at the household level. The microsimulation model is used to simulate both the number of distressed households and their aggregate debt in various macroeconomic scenarios. The simulations indicate that household credit risks to banks are relatively well contained.financial stability; indebtedness; micro simulations; households

This Way Down to a Debt Crisis

What will happen if the United States continues to ignore the size and growth of the national debt? This Way Down to a Debt Crisis is a "magazine from the future" that "reports" what might happen if the nation does not address the many dangers posed by rising national debt.What would a genuine debt crisis look like? This Way Down looks at several possible outcomes if public debt continues to rise at current rates. Scenario articles include, "Quake from Treasury Default Spreads," Emergency Government Cutbacks Continue," "'Stagflation' Returns," "Why Slower Wage Growth?," and :"A Narrow Escape." "This Way Down shows dramatically the risks of the troubling fiscal policy followed by the United States for decades. Now is the time for a real debate on our federal budget misbehavior. Our economic future demands fixing our structural deficit," said Dr. Joseph J. Minarik, CED's Senior Vice President and Director of Research, who prepared the report. This Way Down to a Debt Crisis outlines several "alternative futures" -- the potential consequences of, and a possible political solution for, a U.S. debt crisis -- as they might occur, through hypothetical news articles. Although these articles are of course fictitious, and include fictitious characters to illustrate the human consequences, they are based on sound economics and finance. Because the future is unknowable, it is by no means certain that any one of these scenarios will occur as described. In fact, the future is highly likely to surprise us in many respects. However, CED believes that these scenarios reflect well the serious outcomes of continued policy failure in the stewardship of the federal budget

Statement of the Labor Policy Association Before the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations

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