Economic Issues for Electronic Commerce

惠斯顿，安德鲁，德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校电子商务的主要经济问题这项研究是研究电子商务的问题，重点是电子数据交换，广告和虚拟商店。主要目标是提供一种一般方法来管理和分析由网络服务用户和服务提供者组成的潜在经济，从而为通信网络提供一种可实施的定价工具。第一阶段将通过开发提供更好的等待时间预测的附加机制来增强现有的模拟模型。这些附加机制包括：(1)近似计算价格的排队机制，(2)开发自动设置参数的指导方针，(3)向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，具有查询、优化成本和以适当格式显示结果的能力。在服务器层面，将开发软件代理来响应用户查询并执行估计和定价计算。该项目的第三阶段也是最后阶段打算为广域网环境制定完整的最终优先定价机制。

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.