This paper considers a traditional problem of resource allocation: scheduling jobs on machines. One such recent application is cloud computing, where jobs arrive in an online fashion with capacity requirements and need to be immediately scheduled on physical machines in data centers. It is often...

Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: History -- Developments in Risk and Insurance Economics: the Past 40 Years -- Part 2 : Risk and Insurance Theory Without Information Problems -- Higher-Order Risk Attitudes -- Non-Expected Utility and the Robustness of the Classical Insurance Paradigm -- The...