Abstract The pervasiveness and impact on society and on every day human life of technology has led to a growing awareness that science and technology cannot be considered above or ...
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...
In most cases safety stock is determined based on the variability of the demand and lead time. The focus has been on the statistics and past performance, and the existing framewor...
In recent years, significant advances have been made in the understanding of trust and risk in electronic commerce. However, in examining the published research, some troublesome ...
The distribution of possible future losses for a portfolio of credit risky corporate assets, such as bonds or loans, shows strongly asymmetric behavior and a fat tail as the conse...