Der Terminus XML-basierter Web-Service beschreibt eine auf Standards beruhende Softwarearchitektur, die das Zusammenspiel dreier Rollen (Service-Provider, Service-Verzeichnis und Service-Requestor) einschließt. Der Provider definiert eine Beschreibung für den Service und übergibt sie einem...

Distribution is a key variable in any industry because it ensures the delivery of products and services to consumers. However, over the years businesses have increasingly implemented information and communication technology; this has triggered profound changes in distribution channels. A number...

Many competitive industries find it challenging to identify their competition set, and despite the widely accepted importance of competition set to strategy development and daily operations, few data-driven approaches have been developed to address this challenge. In this paper, we propose a...

In this research, an empirical analysis based on a questionnaire survey was carried out on these sorts of factors on the user side, and the effects that individual attributes and usage conditions have on concerns about privacy and on awareness and understanding of privacy policies were...

We analyze data pricing and targeted advertising. Advertisers seek to tailor their spending to the value of each consumer. A monopolistic data provider sells cookies -- informative signals about individual consumers' preferences. We characterize the set of consumers targeted by the advertisers...