of Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Ful llment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science REAL-TIME TRANSACTION SCHEDULING: A COST-CONSCIOUS APPROACH By DONG-KWEON HONG DECEMBER, 1992 Chairman: Dr. Sharma Chakravarthy Cochairman: Dr. Theodore Johnson Major Department: Computer and Information Sciences Real-time databases are an increas...

We propose efficient intermodal transportation auctions for the B2B e-commerce logistics problem (ELP). This paper is among the first to consider transaction costs into auctions. In the ELP, the shipper is a B2B e-commerce platform by which a number of online orders between goods sellers and buyers are generated, and 3PLs (third-party logistics providers) can fulfill these online orders. The sh...

The information systems outsourcing market has seen rapid growth. Companies are increasingly choosing to outsource many of their information systems activities to services firms rather than sourcing them internally. This trend is inconsistent with the predictions of some of the published literature which point to the high costs of using an outside market. These articles, based on transaction co...