Current DRM systems do not provide flexible payment methods, requiring the user to handle the payment by hand. For instance, when the user needs to pay for watching a movie, she needs to decide which available payment method is the most optimal and suitable. This is a rather cumbersome process for the user that can be avoided by the specification of payment policies. A payment policy automates ...

One of the challenges in designing and maintaining e-business sites is to ensure its scalability as the workload increases. This presentation discusses a multi-layer reference model that can be used for capacity planning and analysis of e-business sites. The talk shows how to characterize the workload of e-commerce servers taking into account customer behavior patterns. It further discusses how...

Medicare spending for physicians' services, the second largest component of the Medicare program (24.5 percent), represents 1.3 percent of the Federal budget, 0.41 percent of the gross national product, and 19.4 percent of national spending for physicians' services. Interest in reforming the Medicare physician payment system is growing. Detailed information on patterns of Medicare spending for ...

The author performed a preliminary empirical study of forensic fee agreements. A survey of forensic psychiatrists produced samples of fee agreements used for expert witness work. The samples were analyzed to determine patterns of usage, critical elements, styles of agreement design, and other observations. Despite uncertainties of payment in this field, a surprising number of experts do not use...

Along with the rapid development of Internet, e-commerce has become an integral part of life. It owns most of its success to online payment. Nevertheless, some problems of the online payment are becoming the largest restricts in the development of e-commerce. The proposed Union-Bank Online Payment mode effectively solves these problems. Applying empirical research approach and model research ap...

The use of mobile applications has allowed electronic transactions to be made anytime, anywhere, and by anyone. Internet it possible for businesses expand their reach across the globe. As a guiding agent purchasing decisions, social media’s proliferation expanded businesses’ ability generate revenue [1]. In short, e-commerce become mainstay in way consumers shop. findings related this study are...

With mobile payment, individuals can buy goods and services through the use of a mobile device and wireless technology. Still, although the usage of mobile payment provides several advantages, such as a more convenient and faster paying-process, it is hardly used. Individuals rather stick with their current payment method, such as cash, EC card or credit card. In this study, we therefore try to...

as mobile technologies are becoming more advanced and mobile devices are making a big impact on daily life, a new type of payment system named mobile payment (m-payment) has emerged, enabling users to pay from their wireless devices especially mobile phones. this paper analyzes currently available wireless-payment systems and finds the stored-value card to be the best overall payment scheme for...

Background and Objectives: In the real world, the obsolescence items are some items that lose their value over time due to the emergence of new technology. Because of rapid changes in technology, inventory management of such items is considered in recent years. Moreover, suppliers try to encourage the retailers for purchasing an item before it is outmoded with some policies suc...

many countries are turning their attention to the use of explicit financial incentives to drive desired improvements in healthcare performance. however, we have only a weak evidence-base to inform policy in this area. the research challenge is to generate robust evidence on what financial incentives work, under what circumstances, for whom and with what intended and unintended consequences.