Online intermediaries have recently started offering database services to donors and certification services to nonprofit organizations through the Internet. We conceptualize a Donor-to-Nonprofit (D2N) marketplace as an online intermediary that offers these two services and examine its effect on...

Coordination is the art and science of managing interactions and dependencies among activities and agents in multi-agent systems. Since the coordination problems are NP-complete, there is a notorious difficulty in solving them optimally. Therefore, a heuristic approach that offers near-optimal...

A stochastic model based on the Capacitated Facility Location Allocation problem is developed to find the optimal Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network structure. Given the locations of the peers and their demand distributions in a grid space, the model finds the optimal points in the space to place the...

Most of the tools that are used for Information Security (ISEC) risk assessment are qualitative and are not grounded in theory. This paper presents and applies a well-known financial risk theory, Value at Risk (VaR), to the ISEC risk assessment. VaR in its most succinct form is defined as a...

Loyalty is a big part of today's business because retaining a customer is cheaper than attracting a new one. This relationship also holds true in e-commerce. There are many programs on the Internet to enhance loyalty in the electronic environment, most of which can be summarized as frequent...