This paper presents an approach for integrating fault-tolerance techniques into microprocessors by utilizing instruction redundancy as well as time redundancy. Smaller and smaller...
Increasingly, Internet-level distributed systems are oriented as much toward information access as they are toward computation. From computer-supported collaborative work to peer-...
Michael L. Scott, DeQing Chen, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...
We analyze quality-contingent prices as a mechanism for mitigating the effects of quality uncertainty in e-commerce and IT goods services. A contingency pricing contract specifie...
Contract and rights management – and thus property rights protection – has gained increasing importance as a quality standard in brokerage and electronic commerce environments...
Many large companies around the world have made considerable investment in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to support their business processes. Many of these companies ...