Introduction Wholesaling is a distribution function that together with manufacturing and retailing forms part of a sector's marketing channel. The EU defines wholesaling as involving firms: … exclusively or primarily engaged in the resale of goods in their own name to retailers or other wholesalers, to manufacturers and others for further processing, to professional users, including craftsmen, ...

Retailing is the interface between the producers and individual consumers buying for personal consumption or use. As such retailing is the last link that connects consumers or customers with the manufactures and distribution chain. Whether it is manufactures, distributors, wholesalers, if they sale the goods and service directly to buyers then they are called retailers and their trading activit...

Web service infrastrutures usually are comprised of front-end Web servers that accept requests and process them, and backend servers that manage data and services. Current Web servers use various API sets to access backend services. This model does not support service differentiation, overload control, caching of contents generated by backend servers. We have proposed a framework for using serv...

Information Technology heavily transforms the financial industry and already changed the intermediating services of brokers. This class of service providers has to fulfill the trading of especially large orders with best possible executions and within a given time frame. Based on previous research in order executions, we develop a model for survival analysis of orders and estimate the influence...

Cloud brokers have been recently introduced as an additional computational layer to facilitate cloud selection and service management tasks for cloud consumers. However, existing brokerage schemes on cloud service selection typically assume that brokers are completely trusted, and do not provide any guarantee over the correctness of the service recommendations. It is then possible for a comprom...

In this paper we analyze the behavior of e-commerce users based on actual logs from two large non-English e-brokers. We start by presenting a quantitative study of the behavior of e-brokers and discuss the influence of regional and cultural issues on them. We then discuss a model that quantifies the efficiency of the results provided by brokers in the electronic marketplace. This model is a fun...

Publish/Subscribe-based networks have emerged as suitable candidates for supporting new sort of devices in the Internet of Things. Despite this, there are few mobile broker models that integrate existing subscription and notification models while meet the requirements of these devices. The challenge of creating an uniform and loosely coupled content dissemination network of fixed and mobile dev...

InfoSleuthis an agent-based system for information discovery and retrieval in a dynamic, open environment. This paper discusses InfoSleuth's multibroker design and implementation. InfoSleuth's brokering function combines reasoning over both the syntax and semantics of agents in the domain. The broker must reason over explicitly advertised information about agent capabilities to determine which ...

Real Estate Brokers and Commission: Theory and Calibrations Oz Shy Abstract: The author constructs a theoretical model to examine the effects of an inherent conflict of interest between a seller of a house and the real estate broker hired by the seller. The model is then used to calibrate the broker’s commission rates that would maximize the seller’s expected gain. The findings suggest that w...