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As assistive technologies (ATs) have evolved, they have become increasingly connected. However, these increasing connections pose significant privacy challenges, especially when user privacy is described using complex privacy policies. Our study decodes ...

Many software supply chain attacks exploit the fact that what is in a source code repository may not match the artifact that is actually deployed in one's system. This paper describes a logic-based framework that analyzes a software component and its ...

This document specifies two new Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) attributes that carry DHCP options. The specification is generic and can be applicable to any service that relies upon DHCP. Both DHCPv4- and DHCPv6-configured services ...

The study of autonomous agents has a long history in the Multiagent System and the Semantic Web communities, with applications ranging from automating business processes to personal assistants. More recently, the Web of Things (WoT), which is an extension ...

Building reliable software is challenging because today's software supply chains are built and secured from tools and individuals from a broad range of organizations with complex trust relationships.In this setting, tracking the origin of each piece of ...

Ride-hailing marketplaces like Uber and Lyft use dynamic pricing, often called surge, to balance the supply of available drivers with the demand for rides. We study driver-side payment mechanisms for such marketplaces, presenting the theoretical ...

The adoption of the digital technologies by firms across large components of the Canadian economy has the potential to create significant disruption in the labour market and dramatically impact skill requirements for the labour force. To add to the ...

Virtual reality and other extended reality (XR) technologies are being integrated into academic libraries to support research and teaching in innovative ways; however, new technologies are often adopted without considering disabled users. XR ...

Pricing and inventory replenishment are important operations decisions for firms such as retailers. To make these decisions effectively, a firm needs to know the demand distribution and its dependency on selling price, which is usually estimated using ...

A firm makes pricing and inventory replenishment decisions for a product over T periods to maximize its expected total profit. Demand is random and price sensitive, and unsatisfied demands are lost and unobservable (censored demand). The firm knows the ...

Optimal Pricing in Energy Markets

Motivated by the critical problem of pricing in electricity markets, in “Optimal Pricing in Markets with Nonconvex Costs,” Azizan, Su, Krishnamurthy, and Wierman design a new pricing scheme, called equilibrium-constrained (EC) pricing, for jointly finding ...

We consider a market run by an operator who seeks to satisfy a given consumer demand for a commodity by purchasing the needed amount from a group of competing suppliers with nonconvex cost functions. The operator knows the suppliers’ cost functions and ...

The implementation of games in architecture and urban planning has a long history since the 1960s and is still a preferential tool to foster public participation and address contemporary spatial - and social - conflicts within the urban fabric. Moreover,...

This research considers a retailer’s problem of optimally pricing a product and making order quantity decisions without knowing the function specifying price–demand relationship. We assume that the price is set only once after collecting data, possibly ...

We consider a retailer’s problem of optimally pricing a product and making order quantity decisions without knowing the function specifying price–demand relationship. We assume that the price is set only once after collecting data, possibly from history ...

To have a study of the role of distance education in foreign literature teaching in China, this paper initially refers to its definition and the related background knowledge, then focuses on the relationship between foreign literature teaching and ...

Secure cloud storage is considered one of the most important issues that both businesses and end-users are considering before moving their private data to the cloud. Lately, we have seen some interesting approaches that are based either on the promising ...

How does a firm manage inventory when it receives trade credit from its upstream supplier and offers trade credit to its downstream customer? To maximize its end-of-horizon working capital, the firm needs to trade off standard inventory costs and cash-...

This paper considers a firm that periodically orders inventory to satisfy demand in a finite horizon. The firm operates under two-level trade credit—that is, it offers trade credit to its customer while receiving one from its supplier. In addition to ...

Nowadays the studies on the formalization, enforcement, and monitoring of policies and norms is crucial in different fields of research and in numerous applications. ODRL 2.2 (Open Digital Right Language) is a W3C standard policy expression language ...

The first source as the first productive force, science and technology talents in universities and colleges, the innovation nursery three important juncture, have the responsibility to also have the ability to carry out the transformation of scientific ...

Mobile-promotion platforms enable advertisers individual users or businesses to directly launch their personalized mobile advertising campaigns. These platforms contract with advertisers to provide a certain number of impressions on mobile apps in their ...

A Role-based Access Control (RBAC) mechanism prevents unauthorized users to perform an operation, according to authorization policies which are defined on the user’s role within an enterprise. Several models have been proposed to specify complex RBAC ...

Large scale data sharing is important, especially now, with more open societies of components such as Smart Cities and the Smart Homes creating data sharing ecosystems. We propose that access to data and knowledge be controlled through fine-grained, ...