In many markets, including payment cards and telecommunications, service providers operate networks that support customer transactions with each other. When the two sides of a transaction belong to more than one network in common, the question of which network will carry the transaction arises. We show that the answer depends on a combination of who has the formal authority to choose and the pa...

Focusing on a femtocell communications market, we study the entrant network service provider’s (NSP’s) longterm decision: whether to enter the market and which spectrum sharing technology to select to maximize its profit. This long-term decision is closely related to the entrant’s pricing strategy and the users’ aggregate demand, which we model as medium-term and short-term decisions, respectiv...

Customer churn prediction in logistics industry is one of the most prominent research topics in recent years. It consists of detecting customers who are likely to cancel a subscription to a service. Recently, logistics market has changed from a rapidly growing market into a state of saturation and fierce competition. The focus of the logistic companies has therefore shifted from building a larg...

Current publish/subscribe systems provide very limited support to modify subscriptions dynamically. Consequently, they cannot efficiently control the flow of events between publishers and subscribers, which may lead to unnecessary network traffic. In addition, it is not possible to automatically subscribe or unsubscribe to a service depending on certain context of use. This implies for develope...

energy policy making in the third millennium is summarized in three areas. the first area: moving toward the use of renewable, clean and environment compatible energy, the second area: restructuring in the energy sector, to make it competitive, & finally, the third area is: increasing efficiency in energy consumption. power industry as a growing sub-section of energy sector, especially in recen...

Using data from American magazines, we explore the relationship between newsstand and subscription prices and magazine characteristics. In particular, we distinguish between magazines that provide benefits in the future (investment magazines) versus those that are simply fun to read now (leisure magazines). A consumer with a present bias at the newsstand discounts the future payoff of the inves...

The current study examines the driving forces behind enterprise software providers' adoption of the subscription-based pricing model. I identify and model two special features of enterprise software products: consumers’ uncertainty about their true valuations for the product prior to adoption and the high upfront implementation cost. I develop a dynamic model with an infinitely-living monopoly ...

There are now available a number of new subscription services that comprise a dual pricing system of a monthly access fee (rental) and a per-minute usage charge. Examples include cellular phones, the Internet, and pay TV. The usage and retention of such services depend on the absolute and relative prices of this dual system. For instance, a moderate access fee but a low-usage charge might initi...

This paper carries out a systematic literature review of gameplay requirements by identifying gameplay aspects of Massively Multiplier Online games from publications released between 2004 and 2014. These aspects can be categorized to determine the state of the art regarding MMO’s. Aspects include MMO’s in general, their gameplay requirements, gameplay and player modelling, emergent gameplay, th...