When the online stores and the logistics service providers make decision alone, as trade off phenomenon exists, inventory costs achieve the minimum while transportation costs are not the minimum or the opposite situation occurs. When implementing inventory and transportation integrated optimization, the profit of the whole supply chain and the stores increases, while the profit of the logistics...

The liberalisation of the telecommunications industry has resulted in a proliferation of new services and services providers. This is particularly the case in the rapidly expanding IP-based services market. Providers include Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Virtual Private Network (VPN), communication (backbone operators), and application service providers. The final service set delivered to ...

User profiles are typically stored locally within proprietary personalisation architectures at service providers. Replicating the same information of the user profile, e.g. email address, across multiple independent service providers decreases consistency of user profiles. Centralising or exchange profile information increases consistency of profiles. Law issues, company policies and proprietar...

We describe a networking infrastructure, called wireless open service networks, that allows service providers such as content providers to compete in open marketplaces. Using this open infrastructure, customers are empowered with dynamic choice of a variety of services at various levels, beyond just their traditional choices in network access services. In the meantime, service providers are giv...

As cloud computing is increasingly transforming the information technology landscape, organizations and businesses are exhibiting strong interest in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings that can help them increase business agility and reduce their operational costs. They increasingly demand services that can meet their functional and non-functional requirements. Given the plethora and the var...

introduction: patients are recently more aware and conscious. this is because of the belief that a high level of quality can translate into patient satisfaction. this is critical for healthcare providers as they deal with life. this recognition by both the service provider and service receivers made the government to establish units of service commission (servicom) in each of the governmental a...

Now more than ever, it is becoming critical for businesses in the tourism industry to have a strong online presence. To achieve this goal, the proper usage of latest Web technologies, particularly schema.org annotations is crucial. In this paper, we present our e ort to improve the online visibility of Tourismusverband (TVB) Mayrhofen-Hippach and all touristic service providers in the Mayrhofen...

Three service providers in competition, try to optimize their quality of service / content level and their service access price. But, they have to deal with uncertainty on the consumers’ preferences. To reduce their uncertainty, they have the opportunity to buy information and to build alliances. We determine the Shapley value which is a fair way to allocate the grand coalition’s revenue betwee...

This paper studies the efficient pricing of termination services for calls that are made to Internet service providers (ISPs). A model is presented in which an incumbent phone network is obligated to provide local calls at a regulated per-minute price while entrant carriers compete to terminate ISP-bound calls. This model is used to understand the problems of regulatory arbitrage that arise whe...