Utility Service to Cooperatives

Identification and Member Commitment to Agricultural Cooperatives

From Quality to Utility: Adaptive Service Selection Framework

We consider an approach to service selection wherein service consumers choose services with desired nonfunctional properties to maximize their utility. A consumer’s utility from using a service clearly depends upon the qualities offered by the service. Many existing service selection approaches support agents estimating trustworthiness of services based on their quality of service. However, exi...

Health insurance purchasing cooperatives.

S mall employers have particular disadvantages as purchasers of health insurance.They often are not well informed about the insurance options available to them because, unlike large employers, they do not have specialized staff to manage their employee benefit programs. Small business owners, who usually make decisions about insurance for their firms, typically have little time or expertise to ...

Improving Service Utility and Service Delivery in Next Generation Networks

Analysis of Joint Call Admission Control Strategies for Heterogeneous Cellular Networks Olabisi Falowo (University of Cape Town, South Africa); H. Anthony Chan (University of Cape Town, South Africa); “This paper investigates three joint call admission control algorithms (JCAC) for heterogeneous cellular networks. These algorithms are random-selectionbased, service-based, and load-based JCAC al...

Which Provides Better Utility to Users, Best–effort Service or Reservation–based Service?

The conventional Internet has only provided the best–effort service, which does not offer any QoS (Quality– of–Service) guarantees. However, recent developments of multimedia applications require QoS guarantees for real– time transfers, which eventually introduced reservation– based protocols. However, it is pointed out that reservation– based protocols such as RSVP have several drawbacks such ...