The data sponsored scheme allows the content provider to cover parts of the cellular data costs for mobile users. Thus the content service becomes appealing to more users and potentially generates more profit gain to the content provider. In this paper, we consider a sponsored data market with a monopoly network service provider, a single content provider, and multiple users. In particular, we ...

Telecommunication companies are demonstrating interest in providing mobile video services. The availability of larger bandwidth, and the improvements in terms of resolution of the displays of third generation mobile phones, let telecom and content provider companies to provide new services to their customers. Among these services users can watch a certain number of sport videos, usually a selec...

This paper discusses strategies issues for negotiating price and QoS guarantees between telecommunication companies, ISP (Internet Service Provider) and Internet users. There is an increase in telecom infrastructure cost when QoS guarantees are offered and, consequently, a conflict between providers and users of the system arises. Another important question is about end-toend pricing since QoS ...

This paper suggests an integrated mathematical framework developed based on the leader–followers game for augmentation of transmission networks. Transmission Network Service Provider moves first and designs the horizon year transmission system. Generating Companies compete for having the highest share from the energy market and they find their equilibrium point using the Nash equilibrium concep...

Insurance companies are among the service organizations, which maintain close relationships with their clients by providing insurance services. Clients are the most important resource for service companies. And profitability of insurance companies undoubtedly hinges on clear analysis of client satisfaction and improved productivity of service providers. An important factor of client satisfactio...

In this paper we introduce DiTTO, an online service that allows one to convert an E/R diagram created through the yEd diagram editor into a proper OWL ontology according to three different conversion strategies.

Researchers have called for new theoretical frameworks and empirical analyses to understand variations in organizational strategies and management practices in the Internet industry, where existing paradigms may have limited applicability. Studies to date have neither articulated the repertoire of key firm actions in this context nor developed theory to relate firm actions to performance. This ...

This paper presents Folheador, an online service for browsing through Portuguese semantic relations, acquired from different sources. Besides facilitating the exploration of Portuguese lexical knowledge bases, Folheador is connected to services that access Portuguese corpora, which provide authentic examples of the semantic relations in context.