Pricing Virtual Paths with Quality-of-Service Guarantees as Bundle Derivatives

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Hedonic Pricing under Uncertainty: A Theoretical Consumer Behavior Model

A model of consumer behavior has been formulated by using an additive utility function and the hedonic pricing approach, in a virtual market. Since, there is a time lag between ordering and purchasing products (goods and services) online and receiving them, it means the consumer makes decision under uncertainty. The level of satisfaction with products with distinctive characteristics is describ...

Two-level supply chain quality improvement through a wholesale price coordination contract on pricing, quality and services

Nowadays, competitive market creates the necessity of quality improvement in different levels of supply chains (SCs). This paper contributes to the SC coordination literature and proposes a bilateral coordination contract for optimizing pricing decisions along with quality improvement decisions in different echelons of a real case of a cell phone SC. The SC comprises a manufacturer who deals wi...

Pricing of risk for loss guaranteed intra-domain internet service contracts

The Internet today offers primarily a best-effort service. Research and technology development efforts are currently underway to allow provisioning of better than besteffort Quality of Service (QoS) assurances. In this article, we develop a spot pricing framework for intradomain expected bandwidth contracts with loss based QoS guarantees. The framework builds on a nonlinear pricing scheme for c...

Quality of Service Management in Integrated Services Networks

Service curves were introduced earlier as a convenient framework for management and allocation of end-to-end deterministic quality of service guarantees in virtual circuit switched networks operating with essentially no transmission errors, e.g. ATM networks. A service curve can be thought of as a generalized bandwidth specification, which simultaneously characterizes both latency and throughpu...