Based on social exchange theory, a vast body of research has applied trust-commitment theory to explain marketing relationships and to predict their outcome in industrial contexts. Affective commitment in particular has drawn much attention. A review of the literature shows that the research in the field is both scattered and fragmented. Further, the cultural context surrounding the relationshi...

The Mishna in Tractate Gittin discusses land qualities, in a context where land is used to settle monetary obligations. The law is that land of different qualities must be used to pay claimants in different situations; in particular, claimants pursuant to a tort case have the right to have their claim paid with land of the best quality. Creditors have the right to be paid with land of medium qu...

Video Surveillance as a Service provides service to users using Cloud technology. The DRAGON-Lab supports an opportunity for researchers to use Cloud technology on an open platform, but the services utilize schemes have not been defined. This paper proposed two VSaaS working models, market model and tender/contract model. A comparision testing are given and proven the proposed models are applic...

Summary Paper reports on research into the relationship between business activity and vulnerable people in Orissa, India. It considers institutional decision-making processes and their direct impact on these people's lives. Three key situations are considered: privatisation and access to power; contract labour and migration; mining and impact on marginalised groups. Investigation was based upon...

B of long lead times associated with product development and building capacity, a supplier must initiate investment in capacity when the product development effort is ongoing. Because the product is ill defined at this point in time, the buyer is unable to commit to the future terms of trade through a courtenforceable contract. Instead, to provide incentives for capacity investment, the buyer i...

It has been shown that for k = 8 or 9, there exists a BIBD(v, k, 1) for all positive integers v == 1 or k (mod k(k-1)), with some possible exceptions. We show that such designs exist for 49 of these exceptional values. A balanced incomplete block design (BIBD) with parameters (v, k, 1) is a pair (X, A) where X is a v-set and A is a family of k-subsets (where 2 < k < v) called blocks, such that ...

In sponsored search auctions advertisers typically pay a fixed amount per click that their advertisements receive. In particular, the advertiser and the publisher enter into a contract (e.g., the publisher displays the ad; the advertiser pays the publisher 10 cents per click), and each party’s subjective value for such a contract depends on their estimated click-through rates (CTR) for the ad. ...

We investigate the value of past performance information in the context of keyword advertising auctions, where advertisers differ both in valuation-per-click and in the numbers of clicks they can generate (their performance). We focus on weighted unitprice-contract (UPC) auctions, in which bidders bid unit prices and pay accordingly if they win, and their bids are weighted by factors based on t...

Once a new technology has been invented, there is a credible threat of imitation when patent protection is strong and imitation cost is low. Within the area of credible imitation, the innovator has an incentive to postpone technology adoption when the cost of imitation is relatively high. The possibility of licensing, however, eliminates or at least reduces the incentive for delayed technology ...

Œis paper summarizes the experience of teaching an introductory course to programming by using a correctness by construction approach at Innopolis University, Russian Federation. We discuss the data supporting the idea that a division in beginner and advanced groups improves the learning outcomes.