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...
Abstract. Predicting the performance of component-based applications is difficult due to the complexity of the underlying component technology. This problem is exacerbated when a m...
: Ad hoc wireless networks have enormous commercial and military potential because of their self-organizing capacity and mobility support. However, some specificities of these net...
Protection of users’ privacy has been a central issue for location-based services (LBSs). In this paper, we classify two kinds of privacy protection requirements in LBS: location...
The lack of QoS attributes and their values is still one of the fundamental drawbacks of web service technology. Most approaches for modelling and monitoring QoS and web service pe...
Christoph Becker, Hannes Kulovits, Michael Kraxner...