Usage-based versus flat pricing for e-business services with differentiated QoS

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce, CEC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 355-362

  Liu, Zhen ^a   Wynter, L ^a   Xia, C ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Consumer electronics; Delay; Electronic commerce; Monopoly; Nash equilibrium; Pricing; Processor scheduling; Quality of service; Web and internet services

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET; QUALITY OF SERVICE; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; WEB SERVICES;

DELAY; INTERNET SERVICES; MONOPOLY; NASH EQUILIBRIA; PROCESSOR SCHEDULING;

COSTS;

EID: 84898215541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COEC.2003.1210271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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