Economic Issues for Electronic Commerce

IRI-9509914 Whisper，Andrew德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校$73，475 - 12个月 电子商务的经济问题 本研究以电子资料交换、广告、虚拟商店为研究对象，探讨电子商务之相关议题。 主要目标是提供一个通用的方法来管理和分析潜在的经济组成的网络服务的用户和服务提供商，导致一个可实施的通信网络的定价工具。 第一阶段将加强现有的模拟模型，开发更多的机制，以便更好地预测等待时间。 这些额外的机制包括：（1）计算价格的近似排队机制，（2）开发自动设置参数的指导方针，（3）为模拟子程序添加功能，（4）自动化一些采样子程序，（5）执行测试，（6）开发定价方案的计算工具。 第二阶段将在局域网上实施定价机制，并建立一个简单的用户界面，能够查询、优化成本并以适当的格式显示结果。在服务器一级，将开发软件代理人，以答复用户查询并进行估算和定价计算。该项目的第三和最后阶段打算为广域网环境制定完整的最后优先定价机制。

IRI-9509914 Whinston, Andrew University of Texas-Austin $73,475 - 12 mos Economic Issues for Electronic Commerce This research is to study issues of electronic commerce, focusing on electronic data interchange, advertising, and virtual stores. The main objective is to provide a general approach to manage and analyze the potential economy consisting of users of the network services and the service providers, leading to an implementable pricing tool for communications networks. The first phase will enhance the existing simulation models by developing additional mechanisms for providing better predictions of waiting times. These additional mechanisms include: (1) approximating queuing mechanisms for computing prices, (2) developing guidelines to set parameters automatically, (3) adding functionality to simulation subroutines, (4) automating some sampling subroutines, (5) performing testing, (6) developing computing tools for the pricing scheme. The second phase will implement pricing mechanism on LANs and building a simple user interface with the ability to query, optimize costs, and present results in an appropriate format. At the server level, software agents will be developed to respond to user queries and perform estimation and pricing calculations. The third and final phase of the project intends to develop the complete final priority pricing mechanism for the Wide Area Network environments.