Many firms have introduced internet-based customer self-service applications, such as online payments or brokerage services. Despite high initial signup rates, not all customers actually shift their dealings online. We investigate whether the multi-stage nature of the adoption process (an ‘adoption funnel’) for such technologies can explain this low take-up. We use exogenous variation in events...

A majority of states in the United States have instituted Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), which require electric service providers to meet a portion of their demand using renewable energy resources. These requirements, along with state and federal incentives, are the main drivers for the construction of utility-scale renewable energy plants in the United States. In order to help understand...

File system checkers serve as the last line of defense to recover a corrupted file system back to a consistent state. Therefore, their reliability is critically important. Motivated by real accidents, in this paper we study the behavior of file system checkers under faults. We systematically inject emulated faults to interrupt the checkers and examine the impact on the file system images. In do...

We propose handling of external real time events through multithreading and describe the microarchitecture of our multithreaded Java microcon troller called Komodo microcontroller Real time Java threads are used as interrupt service threads ISTs instead of interrupt service routines ISRs Our proposed Komodo microcontroller supports multiple ISTs with zero cycle context switching overhead We eva...