This paper studies how consumers' online search behavior may trigger pervasive and persistent online price dispersion. We set up a game-theoretic model to examine the oligopo...
In contextual computing, where cues beyond direct user input are used to trigger computation, one of the most daunting challenges is inferring what the user is doing. For the doma...
Victoria Bellotti, Jim Thornton, Alvin Chin, Diane...
Understanding performance and related issues in a complex system requires analyzing where and why the program spends its resources. In a reactive system such as a interactive appl...
As data volumes rise and retention periods increase, the appearance of "better, faster and cheaper" storage infrastructure seems like an all-encompassing solution to con...
— Software as a Service (SaaS) and the possibility to compose Web services provisioned over the Internet are important assets for a service-oriented architecture (SOA). However, ...