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Cloud Service Model’s Role in Provider and User Security Investment Incentives by Yang, Mingwen, Jacob, Varghese S., Raghunathan, Srinivasan

“…Cloud computing can be viewed as an e‐business in which the cloud provider sells a range of information technology services and operations over the Internet to…”
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Postrelease Testing and Software Release Policy for Enterprise-Level Systems by Jiang, Zhengrui, Sarkar, Sumit, Jacob, Varghese S.

“…Prior work on software release policy implicitly assumes that testing stops at the time of software release. In this research, we propose an alternative…”
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Pricing Models for Online Advertising: CPM vs. CPC by Asdemir, Kursad, Kumar, Nanda, Jacob, Varghese S.

“…Online advertising has transformed the advertising industry with its measurability and accountability. Online software and services supported by online…”
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Dynamic pricing of multiple home delivery options by Asdemir, Kursad, Jacob, Varghese S., Krishnan, Ramayya

“…Online grocers accept delivery bookings and have to deliver groceries to consumers’ residences. Grocery stores operate on very thin margins. Therefore, a…”
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Can Payment-per-Click Induce Improvements in Click Fraud Identification Technologies? by Chen, Min, Jacob, Varghese S., Radhakrishnan, Suresh, Ryu, Young U.

“…Pay-per-click (PPC) is a common pricing model used to pay for ads on the Web and is open to the possibility for click fraud, where clicks are not from a…”
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Breast cancer prediction using the isotonic separation technique by Ryu, Young U., Chandrasekaran, R., Jacob, Varghese S.

“…A recently developed data separation/classification method, called isotonic separation, is applied to breast cancer prediction. Two breast cancer data sets,…”
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Scheduling advertisements on a web page to maximize revenue by Kumar, Subodha, Jacob, Varghese S., Sriskandarajah, Chelliah

“…Many web sites (e.g. Hotmail, Yahoo) provide free services to the users while generating revenues from advertising. Advertising revenue is, therefore, critical…”
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Vendor and Client Interaction for Requirements Assessment in Software Development: Implications for Feedback Process by Jayanth, Rajiv, Jacob, Varghese S., Radhakrishnan, Suresh

“…We study agency problems that arise when prototypes are used for requirements assessment. The precision with which the prototype helps a client assess his…”
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Strategic IT Investments: The Impact of Switching Cost and Declining IT Cost by Demirhan, Didem, Jacob, Varghese S, Raghunathan, Srinivasan

“…The declining cost of information technology (IT) over time provides the later entrant in information-intensive industries a cost advantage. On the other hand,…”
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Adaptive data reduction for large-scale transaction data by Li, Xiao-Bai, Jacob, Varghese S.

“…Data reduction is an important issue in the field of data mining. The goal of data reduction techniques is to extract a subset of data from a massive dataset…”
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Assessing Data Quality for Information Products: Impact of Selection, Projection, and Cartesian Product by Parssian, Amir, Sarkar, Sumit, Jacob, Varghese S

“…The cost associated with making decisions based on poor-quality data is quite high. Consequently, the management of data quality and the quality of associated…”
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Impact of the Union and Difference Operations on the Quality of Information Products by Parssian, Amir, Sarkar, Sumit, Jacob, Varghese S

“…Information derived from relational databases is routinely used for decision making. However, little thought is usually given to the quality of the source…”
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Heuristics and augmented neural networks for task scheduling with non-identical machines by Agarwal, Anurag, Colak, Selcuk, Jacob, Varghese S., Pirkul, Hasan

“…We propose new heuristics along with an augmented-neural-network (AugNN) formulation for solving the makespan minimization task-scheduling problem for the…”
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An Experimental Analysis of Face to Face versus Computer Mediated Communication Channels by Barkhi, Reza, Varghese S. /fnms> Jacob, Pirkul, Hasan

“…Experimental research on Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) has generally focused on democratic groups whose members typically share the same objectives. In…”
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Information Technology Investment Strategies Under Declining Technology Cost by DEMIRHAN, DIDEM, JACOB, VARGHESE S., RAGHUNATHAN, SRINIVASAN

“…Investments in information technology (IT) have become crucial for firms to improve the quality of their products and services. Typically, IT cost for the same…”
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Augmented neural networks for task scheduling by Agarwal, Anurag, Pirkul, Hasan, Jacob, Varghese S.

“…We propose a new approach, called Augmented Neural Networks (AugNN) for solving the task-scheduling problem. This approach is a hybrid of the heuristic and the…”
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The influence of communication mode and incentive structure on GDSS process and outcomes by Barkhi, Reza, Jacob, Varghese S., Pirkul, Hasan

“…Given the orientation towards groups and the increase in the use of Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) for distributed groups, we study communication mode…”
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An investigation of mating and population maintenance strategies in hybrid genetic heuristics for product line designs by (Sundar) Balakrishnan, P.V., Gupta, Rakesh, Jacob, Varghese S.

“…This research builds on prior work on developing near optimal solutions to the product line design problems within the conjoint analysis framework. In this…”
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Genetic Algorithms for Product Design by Balakrishnan, P. V. (Sundar), Jacob, Varghese S

“…Product design is increasingly recognized as a critical activity that has a significant impact on the performance of firms. Consequently, when firms undertake…”
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Is decentralization sustainable in the bitcoin system? by Jacob, Varghese S., Mishra, Sailendra Prasanna, Radhakrishnan, Suresh

“…The Bitcoin system is a decentralized monetary system in that any participant can potentially verify and record transactions onto a public ledger. Using a…”
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