This paper is concerned with the issue of side payments between content providers (CPs) and Internet service (access bandwidth) providers (ISPs) in an Internet that is potentially not neutral. We herein generalize past results modeling the ISP and CP interaction as a noncooperative game in two directions. We consider different demand response models (price sensitivities) for different provider ...

This paper describes a prototype genome display and query system for the World Wide Web, which could play the role of a graphical interactive gateway to online genome information services. It provides a uniform interface to display mapping and sequencing data for the human, mouse and yeast genomes and could be easily extended to accommodate more information as it becomes available. This system ...

PURPOSE To enhance primary care provider participation in a multi-faceted interactive asthma teaching program sponsored by managed care organizations. DESIGN Case series of six MCO-sponsored continuing medical education (CME) sessions. METHODOLOGY MCOs were provided with a standard set of recruitment materials. The MCO disease management divisions invited pediatric primary care providers of...

introduction: as there are different e-cme content formats, we need documented evidence for comparing them. in this study, we determined the proper e-content format for cme activities in iran. methods: we devised a questionnaire to gather the opinion of the faculty members who had the experience of e-cme content development about the proper e-cme content format for iranian medical society. base...

Nowadays, information and communication technology provides the different players in the multimedia delivery chain (from content creators to end users) with an excess of information and services. Offering access to all this information from almost anywhere at anytime with the current ubiquitous terminals is far from trivial. In this paper, we will discuss a scalable approach to tackle these pro...

This document provides guidance and suggestions for Internet Content Providers and Application Service Providers who wish to offer their service to both IPv6 and IPv4 customers. Many of the points will also apply to hosting providers or to any enterprise network preparing for IPv6 users.

Exponential growth of user-generated content (UGC) on the Web demands an effective way for information consumers to acquire what they need. Specialized UGC search services outperform general-purpose search engines that usually have difficulties retrieving UGC or rank them low. However, with existing UGC search services, consumers may only be able to acquire information that is related to their ...

The increasing number of users as well as their demand for more and richer content has led to an exponential growth of Internet traffic for more than 15 years. In addition, new applications and use cases have changed the type of traffic. For example, social networking enables users to publish their own content. This user generated content is often published on popular sites such as YouTube, Twi...