Making preference information in consumer markets explicit can benefit both the individual customer and the business side. The costumer can benefit by faster finding a product that fits his needs whereas the e-commerce site gets important information about segments and needs in the market. Preference information can be obtained in an e-commerce environment either from historical transaction dat...

Customer-to-customer (C2C) markets, such as eBay, provide a platform allowing customers to engage in business with each other. The success of a C2C market requires an appropriate pricing (i.e., transaction fee charged by the market owner) scheme that can maximize the market owner’s revenue while encouraging customers to participate in the market. However, the choice of an optimal revenue-maximi...

Nowadays, information plays an important role in organizations. Sensitive information is often stored in databases. Traditional mechanisms such as encryption, access control, and authentication cannot provide a high level of confidence. Therefore, the existence of Intrusion Detection Systems in databases is necessary. In this paper, we propose an intrusion detection system for detecting attacks...

Transaction processing is a mission critical enterprise application that runs on high-end servers. Traditionally, transaction processing systems have been designed for uniform coreto-core communication latencies. In the past decade, with the emergence of multisocket multicores, for the first timewe have Islands, i.e., groups of cores that communicate fast among themselves and slower with other ...

We analyze the portfolio choice of an investor who can invest in two risky assets (in addition to a riskless asset) and who is subject to taxes on realized capital gains. These taxes appear in the portfolio choice problem as a form of time-dependent, endogenous transaction costs. Similar to the case of portfolio choice with transaction costs, the optimal strategy of the taxable investor contain...

We integrate insights from organizational capabilities, organizational economics, and industry evolution to examine industry entrants’ boundary choices about value chain activities and test hypotheses in 1978–2009 data from a sample of U.S. bioethanol producers. We find support for our predictions that transaction hazards, decomposed as either enduring or transient over the stages of industry e...

The latest development in the area of communication technology paved way towards the usage of E-commerce technologies. The B2B transaction has helped the customers to get the best resource by comparing various resources of same kind, leaving the business community in guessing about the user choice and the reasons beyond the user’s attraction about a product. To understand this changing patterns...

The Conceptual Framework offers an approproach to understanding and managing reporting choices and their regulation. Neutrality, in terms of an unrelenting focus on relevance and reliability to the exclusion of particular interests or transaction motives, is a cornerstone of the Framework. We present an inter-generational trading model in which (1) relevance and reliability are well defined, (2...