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...
A scalable and expressive peer-to-peer (P2P) networking and computing framework requires efficient resource discovery services. Here we propose NEVRLATE, for Network-Efficient V...
Ajay Chander, Steven Dawson, Patrick Lincoln, Davi...
In traditional commerce, brokers act as middlemen between customers and providers, aggregating, repackaging and adding value to products, services or information. In the broadest ...
The integration of different wireless access technologies combined with the huge characteristic diversity of supported services in next-generation wireless systems creates a real h...
View materialization is known to be a valuable technique for performance optimization in relational databases, and much work has been done addressing the problem of consistently m...