INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 235 I. UNHEALTHY SECRETS: PROPRIETARY PRICES AND ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD IMPLEMENTATION ......... 239 II. TRADE SECRECY AS A BUSINESS TOOL IN THE SEARCH INDUSTRY .................................................................................. 244 III. CLANDESTINELY COMMENSURATING COMPUTING IN CO...

To implement trade-off in automated negotiations is one of important aspects in the development of electronic commerce. And the precondition needs to establish a negotiation model. Introduced fuzzy set theory based on games theory; therefore, Introduced fuzzy set theory based on games theory, this paper puts forward a strategy model of the trade negotiations. In this model, firstly we complete ...

A “Council for Government Electronic Data Processing” was established in 1961. This was the start of development of a common policy for computers and data within the public administration. In 1969-70, computers got on the agenda of political parties and the trade unions. In the course of the seventies and the beginning of the eighties the government, the political parties, and the trade unions ...

This paper shows the effects of traders evaluation based computational mechanism design in electronic commerce. The proposes a new user evaluation methods based on multi-criteria based rating system. In the existing trading systems, most of them have user evaluation to help buyers/sellers decision making to trade. However, a user can never know where the potential trading partners did trade suc...

their preferences on those product dimensions. Since a single commodity market is made up of many heterogeneous goods that are close to each other but different in grade, quality and delivery conditions, preference satisfaction plays an important role in improving trade matches. In cotton markets, for instance, a cotton merchant may want to specify his preferences like " I prefer early delivery...

The economic performance of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over the past two decades has been disappointing. The initial explanation for this poor performance focussed on deficient macroeconomic policies. However a number of SSA countries have undertaken and sustained a reasonable measure of macroeconomic reform and still see no significant expansion in the growth of manufactured exports. This sugges...

The problem of slaughterhouse waste water can be resolved by mixing it with serum from lacteal industry to produce a biogas. The effect of serum addition on the anaerobic co-digestion of solid and liquid slaughterhouse waste has been studied. The experimental device consisted of a continuous digester by recirculation of biogas produced in the anaerobic digestion. The input effluent was a mixtur...