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The online reservation system (ORS) is widely used in the hospitality industries. This paper studies the hotel's optimal pricing policies for two types of contracts: booking without prepayment and booking with prepayment. The hotel adopts these two contracts to segment heterogenous customers through the ORS. We get the hotel's three possible pricing strategies and the corresponding payoffs. It is...
This paper focuses on the influence of customer acceptance of online sales channel on the profit of firms when the online and the traditional ‘Brick and Mortar’ channels compete. Profit is calculated when the channels are engaged in Bertrand competition and when the channels are integrated. Influence of customer acceptance of online channel on the firm profit is analyzed for different categories of...
Denial of service (DoS) attacks have been around for a significant period of time and is exponentially growing in popularity. This paper discusses various DoS attacks and the evolution towards distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. An analysis of high profile attacks will be conducted to evaluate the methods used by the attackers. We will also describe the roles of enterprise, consumers, and...
The Internet and Digital Economy track focuses on the ways in which the Internet affects people, groups, organizations, and societies (e.g., Markets, social networks), as well as fundamental issues in the development and operation of the Internet and Internet applications.
Crowdfunding has been gaining in popularity as means for creators and entrepreneurs to get funding and launch their ideas and projects and is considered as an alternative financing model for start-up funding by many, where the market leading platform Kickstarter received about USD$480 million in 2013 alone. However, this increasing popularity has not yet gained foot in many developing countries that...
This paper studies how social relationships are reshaped by the enactment of ICTs through the interplay of traditional and new actors. Building on the perspectives of an ecology of games and the sociology of translation, we propose a framework to study cross-organizational processes and technology-enabled reconfigurations of power and resources of the interrelated actors. We then illustrate the framework...
This paper seeks to conceptualize the evolution of ad-hoc and improvised self-coordination to institutionalized self-governance of non-binding virtual groups. It uses data collected from Face book group postings in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake to discuss how netizens engage in loosely coordinated actions to contain hatred messages, and eventually evolve into a process of institutionalization...
Virtual enterprises take advantage of Internet technology to share information in order to win more market opportunities, thus it is critical to ensure the security of the process of information sharing, and security information sharing can effectively enhance the safety level of VE. We analyze the security information sharing of VE based on Evolutionary Game Theory, sets up the security information...
The paper deals with the application characteristics of WEB GIS and its ways of building in sports games, and on this basis describes the initial building of public service-oriented G-WEB GIS which integrates multi-source data such as spatial data, attribute data and temporal data. By seamlessly integrating and effectively operating multi-source data, the digital, intelligent, network G-WEB GIS can...
Sports and leisure tourism which based on sporting and tourism resources, through verified activities to plan, design and combine relevant tourism products to arouse people's consuming desire and participate in the above activities to enjoy the spice of nature. This is an emerging tourism form. This paper, based on the analysis of current development situation of sports and leisure tourism at home...
Social networks help to bring the special interest groups on a common platform to develop their businesses, share common interest, and bridge the communication. Once you are inside this online community, you can begin to create your own interest group network of friends and eliminate members that do not share common interests or goals. Most popular sites to help in building the social network includes...
The majority of user interfaces use icons to transmit message. These include software user interfaces, Internet multimedia user interfaces, and mobile media user interfaces. An interface designer has to deal with the visualization of information constantly. Semantics is a rhetoric device which has been applied in graphic interface design as an important modeling method. Based on this understanding,...
Thanks to the attractions of the multimedia, namely interactivity and multimodality, it seems that web sites and CD-ROMs have the capacity to transmit heritage information to the public. But ultimately they miss real cognitive or educational purposes. Consequently, this article suggests enriching the conception of educational products, combining the potential of video games with the methods of representation...
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