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To tackle the challenges of the 21st century, the future scientists and engineers have to understand the interplay between societal challenges and technical solutions as early as possible in their education. They also have to develop the communication and the teamwork skills required to be effective professionals. This paper presents the Communication module of a new course in Social and Human Sciences...
This research proposes a formal framework of new knowledge expertise with mass amateurization and analyzes its impact on Internet-based knowledge markets. Specifically, the new definition of knowledge expertise consists of three major components: primary expertise, searching expertise, and learning expertise. Due to the effect of mass amateurization, questions posted by knowledge seekers on Internet-based...
The contributions of this paper are twofold. Firstly, we analyze the decision making problem of caching contents by the network players of Information Centric Networking (ICN) from a game theoretic perspective. We also mention a possible content distribution model for ICN. By our proposed game theory, different network players can find the optimality taking into consideration which benefits them with...
Electronic market is a new economic space created by the development of the Internet and it has more than a billion of potential customers. In addition to all of the elements that define a classic market, e-market generates entirely new ways of doing business, such as the shared economy. Shared economy is a sustainable economic system built around the sharing of private assets. This rather new system...
Knowledge-based information technology (IT) together with human rationality and its thoughts has been more attended during recent years in order for operating from thought and leaving the machines with repetitive and uncreative affairs as well as increasing the performance and releasing from human skills. This study aims to investigate the role of information technology for providing the electricity...
Peering agreements between Autonomous Systems affect not only the flow of interdomain traffic but also the economics of the entire Internet ecosystem. The conventional wisdom is that transit providers are selective in choosing their settlement-free peers because they prefer to offer revenue-generating transit service to others. Surprisingly, however, a large percentage of transit providers use an...
Prognoses predict the number of smart devices building the Internet of Things (IoT) to range between 30 and 50 billions in 2020, in the most conservative outlook triplicating today's numbers of devices connected to the Internet in just 7 years. While hardware developments and new standards for network and application protocols are progressing well, there is little consensus about how such heterogeneous,...
There is a growing recognition of the role that e-government has on promoting country attractiveness to foreign investors, hence, governments around the globe are deploying e-government services as a promotion technique that helps eliminating Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) barriers, in particular those related to information retrieval and accessibility, business procedures, bureaucratic protocols...
Exploratory empirical studies of the digital divide exist for various nations including the United States. The contribution of this paper is to enhance understanding of factors associated with availability and utilization of information and communication technologies (ICTs) at the state level in the US. In our conceptual model of technology utilization, eight dependent technology availability and...
This study examines how the Chinese government adapts to the challenges posed by information and communication technologies (ICTs) by strengthening state capacity. Using secondary data, we quantitatively examine the relationship between ICT infrastructure and usage, public service delivery, and political control across 30 first-level administrative divisions in China. The results show that, on the...
The Internet is constructed by means of complex business interconnection agreements among multiple networks. However, the most commonly used agreements do not contain explicit Quality of Service reference. In this study a business rationale for Assured Service Quality (ASQ) inter-network services is presented and potential business models for their realization are proposed and analyzed. It is argued...
In this paper we try to determine whether a potential state-aggressor in a recent cyber attack can be identified through an understanding of shared international dependencies between nations. Combining the International Affairs and Systems Science disciplines, we put forth a system dynamics model of cyber conflict which may facilitate the identification of a culpable state or states in a cyber attack...
This article outlines a research agenda and ongoing works in smart data pricing (SDP). SDP aims to create a “win-win” by reducing network congestion cost for operators and empowering consumers with better choices and control over their data usage.
This paper presents an economic perspective on traffic attraction and countermeasures. The results demonstrate that tier-1, tier-2, and tier-3 networks have significant financial incentives to attract traffic. In comparison to ASes from the lower tiers, the tier-1 networks are in a stronger position to benefit from traffic attraction with respect to: (a) the degree of the attainable gain, (b) impact...
Prefix deaggregation is recognized as a steady long-lived phenomenon at the interdomain level, despite its well-known negative effects for the community. The advertisement of more-specific prefixes provides network operators with a fine-grained method to control the interdomain ingress traffic. Moreover, customer networks combining this mechanism with selective advertisements may decrease their monthly...
Future survival of humans depends on how diverse spectrum allocation communications is done. Who controls communications spectrum technology for access, time and content will control the quality of life and how one is to survive. The human rights of equal access to spectrum communications is at risk and can disable basic human needs to be satisfied. Spectrum is a finite physical form that interacts...
With the rapid adoption of Internet and wireless technology, the demand for a faster and reliable speed has been dramatically increasing. Identifying influential factors in consumers wireless technology adoption and willingness to pay for a faster Internet speed across various settings has been an important and focal interest in wireless communication for both researchers and practitioners. By using...
The purpose of this paper is to build a model consisting of young consumers' personality, the use of online social network, and the luxury consumption tendency. We collected data from users of a popular online social network site in China, renren.com, which is Facebook copy. Over 150 respondents from two leading Chinese universities, respectively located at Beijing and Shanghai, volunteered to participate...
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