The emergence of cloud computing provides a costeffective approach to deliver video streams to a large number of end users with the desired user quality-of-experience (QoE). Under such a paradigm, a video service provider (VSP) can launch its own video streaming services virtually, by renting the distribution infrastructure from one or more cloud service providers (CSPs). However, CSPs like Ama...

An IT procurement process, formal or informal, exists in every organization that acquires information technology. As users of information systems increasingly find themselves in roles as customer of multiple technology vendors, this IT procurement process assumes greater management significance. In addition to hardware, operating system software, and telecommunications equipment and services — ...

Procurement is one of the major activities in the Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II), which is closely coupled with inventory management. Any improvement in this area will have a direct impact on the performance of the entire supply chain. Auction mechanism can be a successful procurement method when there are several potential suppliers available. In this work we consider a single-period...

Over the last three decades the role of banking in the process of financial intermediation has been undergoing a profound transformation, owing to changes in the global financial system. India’s banking system has seen some major financial innovations in the past decade as well as steps to promote financial inclusion, schemes that aim to take banking services to yet-to-be-banked areas. The vari...

The paper applies an economic model of a competitive market for retail banking services to generate insights into the following relevant questions. Is the cost structure of electronic distribution systems sufficient to justify choosing the Kiosk/PC Banking distribution strategy? That is, is it reasonable that market pressures and technological advances will allow banks to virtually eliminate br...

The Internet opens up new markets for businesses and can thus allow for a significant improvement in procurement. However, this will only apply if the customers are able to handle this huge market. In this paper we show that finding optimal suppliers in B2B marketing is a complex combinatorial problem and present a solution to it. The BestBasket system of Mercateo.com helps customers to handle ...

The Cloud resource procurement of cloud resources is an interesting and yet unexplored area in cloud computing. cloud vendors choose a fixed pricing strategy for pricing their resources and do not provide any incentive to their users. That’s why to choose only automates the selection of an appropriate cloud vendor and also to implement the dynamic pricing. A cloud broker which can implement the...

The impacts of high technology industries have been growing increasingly to technological innovations and global economic developments, while the concerns in sustainability are calling for facilitating green materials and cleaner production in the industrial value chains. Today’s manufacturing companies are not striving for individual capacities but for the effective working with green supply c...

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...