With the development of electronic commerce (e-commerce), the electronic payment (e-payment) has become a popular method of payment. Its security and trust are the great attention of customers. This paper is an attempt to compare the current widely used e-payment systems to invest the issues and priority of e-payment over ecommerce, specifically the B2C e-commerce in a specific market China. Gr...

This paper focuses on the triumph march of mobile phones that currently are annexing music players, navigation devices, and cameras as separate physical objects. The next target is set on payment. Through synthesizing available literature, we construct a framework for studying digital payment platforms that combines platform, technology and business design aspects. The framework is applied to c...

Digital content transactions through e-commerce will grow tremendous in the coming years. Welldesigned electronic payment schemes and high-quality digital contents are two critical successful factors. This paper proposes an incentive-based electronic payment scheme, which can ensure both important properties of fair exchange and customer anonymity in e-commerce transactions and enhance authors’...

Although at the moment electronic payment via the Internet has no major impact on e-commerce sites, it will be a prerequisite for new business models, such as pay-per-view, and necessary for the success and cost efficiency of future e-commerce applications. Many payment protocols and frameworks for various business domains exist. However, they are incompatible which makes it hard for service de...

Policy makers have been trying to replace Medicare's fee-for-service payment system for years with approaches that pay one price for an aggregation of services. The intent is to reward providers for offering needed care in the most appropriate and cost-effective manner. Medicare's first payment change designed to accomplish such a change was the hospital prospective payment system, introduced d...

The rapid transition to card payments has sparked a search for effective countermeasures to those who exploit card payment security vulnerabilities to commit payment fraud. A review of these vulnerabilities finds that they are tied together by an information-intensive payment approval system. Especially damaging are large data breaches, which are often the result of criminals gathering informat...

This paper presents an algorithm based on multi-objective approach for network reconfiguration. Multiple objectives are considered for reduction in the system power loss, deviations of the nodes voltage and transformers loading imbalance, while subject to a radial network structure in which all the loads must be energized and no branch current constraint is violated. These three objectives are ...

The project reported here, sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA), aimed to describe the effects that alternative health care payment models (i.e., models other than fee-for-service payment) have on physicians and physician practices in the United States. These payment models included capitation, episode-based and bundled payment, shared savings, pay for performance, and retainer-b...

Drawing on the theory of consumption value, this research-in-progress strives to provide a theoretical explanation of payment technology use by investigating the relationship between consumers’ perceptions of different consumption values associated with a certain payment technology and their choice to use the technology. We conducted the study in the context of Denmark, a Northern European coun...

Combinatorial auctions have a wide range of real-world applications; yet, designing combinatorial auction mechanisms that simultaneously possess good economic properties and computational tractability remains a major challenge. An auction mechanism consists of an allocation rule and a payment rule. We propose a new framework that uses Structural SVMs to design a payment rule for any given alloc...