Trust and its role in e-commerce is a major topic for researchers, clients, and service providers alike. However, questions of origin and practical usage of trust in e-commerce ar...
— We study the problem of pricing uplink power in wide-band cognitive radio networks under the objective of revenue maximization for the service provider and while ensuring incen...
Ashraf Al Daoud, Tansu Alpcan, Sachin Kumar Agarwa...
—The timely and efficient management of faults that affect the quality of services delivered to customers is an important issue for service providers with respect to their busin...
The utility of an enterprise search system is determined by three key players: the information retrieval (IR) system (the search engine), the enterprise users, and the service pro...
Mingfang Wu, James A. Thom, Andrew Turpin, Ross Wi...
With the rise of cloud computing, it is increasingly attractive for end-users (organizations and individuals) to outsource the management of their data to a small number of larges...
Daniel Fabbri, Arnab Nandi, Kristen LeFevre, H. V....
—We study the dissemination of dynamic content, such as news or traffic information, over a mobile social network. In this application, mobile users subscribe to a dynamic-conte...
The current trend towards dynamic and highly scalable service provisioning fosters the rise of Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms and so called Compute Clouds. The on-demand p...