When buying COTS-based software, the customer has to choose between what is available. The supplier may add some minor parts, but rarely everything the customer wants. This means t...
: E-commerce customers may have a problem when paying for the purchase of a major item, if its price is larger than the available credit on their credit card. In the brick and mort...
Soon Ae Chun, Yoo Jung An, James Geller, Sunju Par...
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) is an important problem in logistics. The problem is to serve a number of customers at minimum cost without violating the cus...
In the context of electronic commerce, recommender systems enable merchants to assist customers in finding available products that will best satisfy their need. However, a recomm...
It is crucial to segment customers intelligently in order to offer more targeted and personalized products and services. Traditionally, customer segmentation is achieved using sta...
The M/G/1 queue is a classical model used to represent a large number of real-life computer and networking applications. In this note, we show that, for coefficients of variation o...
The paper is a case study of customer-initiated software product development. We have observed and participated in system development activities in a commercial software house (com...