SODA
2004
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM
We study algorithmic questions concerning a basic microeconomic congestion game in which there is a single provider that offers a service to a set of potential customers. Each cus...
PUK
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
The sales of customisable products and services over the internet is a challenging task within the area of electronic commerce. In this chapter we will present a case study which s...
AIPS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
2003
In business marketing, corporations and institutions are interested in executing a sequence of marketing actions to affect a group of customers. For example, a financial instituti...
ECIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
The implementation of technology and, in particular, eCommerce technologies has had unforeseen consequences for the relationship between managers and employees. To be able to oper...
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
It is a common practice that merchants selling products on the Web ask their customers to review the products and associated services. As e-commerce is becoming more and more popu...
INFOCOM
1991
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1991
IEEE
customer which exceeds its deadline will either leave the queue without service or stay in the queue to get unsucWe consider the problem of scheduling impatient CUS- cessful servic...
VLDB
2000
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2000
ACM
Today's Internet economy has primed customers to expect immediate access and immediate results. But instant results are difficult to achieve when your customers want up-to-th...
AGILEDC
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
The Customer is the only non-developer role in eXtreme Programming (XP). The Customer's explicit responsibilities are to drive the project, providing project requirements (us...
WECWIS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1999
IEEE
Internet business has grown at an unprecedented rate in the past several years. Recent research has found that the functions provided by a store have a significant impact on custo...
WWW
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
Recent advances in storage and communication technologies have spurred a strong interest in Video-on-Demand (VOD) services. Providing the customers of VOD servers with time of serv...