The cloud services market exhibits unique characteristics such as instant accessibility, fluctuating demand and supply, and interruptible service provision. Various pricing mechanisms exist in current industry practice, however, none is comprehensive enough to capture all these features. In my work, I identify key factors related to cloud computing pricing. My dissertation includes three essays...

In the emerging multiservice communication networks (ATM, Next-Generation Internet), traditional approaches to pricing are not viable. In telephony, the resources allocated to a call are xed, and usage prices are based on the predictability of the number of active calls at any given moment. But the wide and rapidly evolving range of applications (including some which adapt to resource availabil...

This paper considers the pricing of contingent claims using an approach developed and used in insurance pricing. The approach is of interest and signi...cance because of the increased integration of insurance and ...nancial markets and also because insurance related risks are trading in ...nancial markets as a result of securitisation and new contracts on futures exchanges. This approach uses p...

In this paper, we develop parallel algorithms for pricing American options on multiple assets. Our parallel methods are based on the low discrepancy (LD) mesh method which combines the quasi-Monte Carlo technique with the stochastic mesh method. We present two approaches to parallelize the backward recursion step, which is the most computational intensive part of the LD mesh method. We perform ...

Software development contracts often lead to disputes between the software service supplier and the client commissioning the development. A chief cause of the disputes is the cost of the software development exceeding initial estimates. Software development pricing is based on a ‘fee per unit’ basis. This paper examines 3 key ‘fee per unit’ pricing approaches Time and Materials, Fixed Price for...

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 217 I. TEXT MESSAGE PRICING ......................................................... 218 A. History of Text Message Pricing ............................................ 218 B. Text Messaging Price Comparison ......................................... 220 II. TEXT MESSAGING MARKET BACKGROUND ...........

The purpose of this study is to develop a model that accurately describes the dynamics of the daily average temperature in the context of weather derivatives pricing. More precisely we compare two state of the art algorithms, namely wavelet networks and genetic programming against the classic linear approaches widely using in the contexts of temperature derivative pricing. The accuracy of the v...

In this research, the optimal pricing decisions for two complementary products in a two-echelon supply chain under two scenarios are studied. The proposed supply chain in each echelon includes one retailer and two manufacturers and the same complementary products are produced. In the first scenario, we assume the unit manufacturing costs of the complementary products in each echelon are the sam...