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...
In this paper, we present a scheme for identifying instances of events and extracting information about them. The scheme can handle all events with which an action can be associat...
Harsha V. Madhyastha, N. Balakrishnan, K. R. Ramak...
There are many good reasons why organizations should perform software architecture reconstructions. However, few organizations are willing to pay for the effort. Software architec...
Computational humor will be needed in interfaces, no less than other cognitive capabilities. There are many practical settings where computational humor will add value. Among them...
One of the major problems in building large-scale distributed systems is to anticipate the performance of the eventual solution before it has been built. This problem is especiall...
Yan (Jenny) Liu, Ian Gorton, Anna Liu, Shiping Che...