Broadcast is the most efficient means of delivering rich content to the consumer. Unicast pull is the most convenient method for the consumer to obtain rich content ondemand (any kind of content at any time). The inherent shared bandwidth nature of the Hybrid Fiber/Coax (HFC) network, coupled with advances in technology, allows the best attributes of both broadcast and unicast pull to be provid...

this research aims to apply a model to the study and analysis of environmental and natural resource costs created in supply chains of goods and services produced in thailand, and propose indicators for environmental problem management, caused by goods and services production, based on concepts of sustainable production and consumer behavior. the research showed that the highest environmental co...

Consequently, in equilibrium, if a consumer with valuation v0 buys and patches the software, then every consumer with valuation v > v0 will also buy and patch, and hence there exists a vp ∈ 0 1 such that a consumer with valuation v ∈ will buy and patch if and only if v≥ vp, in which case ∗ v = B P . We next consider the buying decision in the second period. If a consumer with valuation v decide...

This note provides an economic approach to consumer privacy and data security based on the extensive economic literature on how information flows, and is used, in the marketplace. We apply that approach to consumer protection in privacy and data security, as a step toward the ultimate goal of facilitating well-grounded cost-benefit analysis of future policy and law enforcement action in this area.

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Hiring of Cloud resources establishes a business association between Provider and Consumer. In cloud, consumer wants to cut down costs and provider wants to earn more profit even on that cost. Here a symmetric arbitration plan by broker realizes the relationship between buyer and provider. In federated cloud computing environment resources are traded as a commodity and cloud users can migrate b...