Tiered Pricing: Implications for Library Collections

Is tiered pricing the way for vaccines?

852 www.thelancet.com Vol 384 September 6, 2014 lower than the highest GNI-graduating country. Therefore, it is important for the public health community to aggressively use several strategies to address the underlying defi ciencies in the vaccine market. These strategies include, as Berkley notes, demand forecasting and pooled procurement, but they also must include collaboration between agenc...

Modeling Tiered Pricing in the Internet Transit Market

ISPs are increasingly selling “tiered” contracts, which offer Internet connectivity to wholesale customers in bundles, at rates based on the cost of the links that the traffic in the bundle is traversing. Although providers have already begun to implement and deploy tiered pricing contracts, little is known about how such pricing affects ISPs and their customers. While contracts that sell conne...

Dynamic Consumer Profiling and Tiered Pricing Using Software Agents

Energy Aware Pricing in a Three-Tiered Cloud Service Market

We consider a three-tiered cloud service market and propose an energy efficient pricing strategy in this market. Here, the end customers are served by the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, who implement customized services for their customers. To host these services, these SaaS providers, in turn, lease the infrastructure related resources from the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or Pl...

Hybridity, Mutability, Multiplicity: Theorizing Electronic Library Collections

ANINCREASINGLY COMPLEX ARRAY OF ELECTRONIC OBJECTS is challenging conventional categories and distinctions central to library organization. Extraordinary efforts are being made to integrate these hybrids and new forms into traditional library systems and to recreate the stability of the print environment. This article is an attempt to explore some of the conceptual and theoretical issues raised...