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Privacy-preserving content-based image retrieval aims to safeguard the security of outsourced private images while maintaining their searchability. However, existing schemes encounter challenges in striking a balance between security, accuracy, and ...

Attribute-based encryption (ABE) enables a flexible approach to data storage in the cloud by allowing many users to encrypt data with attributes and ensuring that only authorised users with the matching attributes can access the data. However, the ...

Home network owners may have devices or services hosted on their home network that they wish to access from the Internet (i.e., from a network outside of the home network). Home networks are increasingly numbered using IPv6 addresses, which in principle ...

This article examines the factors determining the quality of the outcomes of public-private IT outsourcing (ITO) to create public value. We elaborated a model based on the relational view of interorganizational relations, complemented by the theory of ...

This paper provides a novel theoretical angle and robust empirical evidence demonstrating that the auction duration and the item description length are two essential auction design parameters that can function as screening mechanisms for bidder quality on ...

This paper provides a novel theoretical angle and robust empirical evidence demonstrating that the auction duration and item description length are two essential auction design parameters that can function as a screening mechanism for bidder quality on ...

Multinational corporations have benefited tremendously from free trade in the past few decades. However, the dynamism of international relations, paired with the global recession, has rekindled the debate over frictionless trade. In this study, ...

With recent advances in cloud computing, mobile devices are increasingly being used to record patient physiological parameters, and transfer them to a cloud‐based hospital information system, for access control mediation over a variety of ...

How Reactive Capacity Affects Product Quality and Firm Profitability

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates both supply and demand uncertainties, which have strategically influenced firms’ product quality and targeting decisions. For example, during the ...

In many supply chains, the brand-owning retailer designs product quality and decides the retail price but often outsources its production to suppliers. For products with a short selling season, low reactive capacity in the supply chain requires the ...

A third party developer designs and sells a pricing algorithm that enhances a firm’s ability to tailor prices to a source of demand variation, whether high-frequency demand shocks or market segmentation. The equilibrium pricing algorithm is characterized ...

Globalization has added a layer of complexity to the challenge of mitigating opportunism in buyer–supplier relationships. When engaging with suppliers in different countries, buyers must manage relationships across various cultures. Prior ...

• While the effectiveness of buyer expert power in reducing supplier shirking is not contingent on the supplier's national culture, buyer coercive power appears to be more detrimental (i.e., supplier shirking increases) when used with suppliers ...

We present MOTION, an efficient and generic open-source framework for mixed-protocol secure multi-party computation (MPC). MOTION is built in a user-friendly, modular, and extensible way, intended to be used as a tool in MPC research and to increase ...

This paper studies how firms restructure their relational contracts in the face of permanent shocks to the value of their relationships. In the context of the U.S. airline industry, we argue that major carriers enter self-enforcing agreements with their ...

Attribute-based encryption with keyword search (ABKS) achieves both fine-grained access control and keyword search. However, in the previous ABKS schemes, the search algorithm requires that each keyword to be identical between the target keyword ...

Problem definition : We consider a revenue-generating call center with inbound and outbound calls, where service and sales activities are blended. For maximizing the call center’s revenue, the call center manager exercises two levels of control: agent ...

We examine firm and industry characteristics associated with outsourcing and the relation between outsourcing and capital structure using a unique database of outsourcing purchase contracts. We find that highly valued, profitable firms with high-value ...

Offshore software development outsourcing (OSDO) is one of the popular development paradigms in the software industry. There are a number of challenges associated with OSDO including the challenges related to requirements engineering (RE) process. The ...

It is indisputable and proven in today's market relations that outsourcing is a modern form of doing business based on a development strategy and the transfer of a part of management functions or individual business processes by the customer for a long ...

While opportunism has been a focus of transaction cost economics, perceived opportunism, where one party is perceived to be acting opportunistically when there is no opportunistic intent, can also lead to increased transaction costs in an ...

Firms compete on value, not cost alone. However, sourcing decisions are often heavily weighted towards minimizing costs, even though these decisions also can affect revenue, risk, and other stakeholder values. To address this disconnect, we ...

When outsourcing design tasks, firms want their suppliers to be both efficient and adaptive. Whereas efficiency is necessary to reap economic gains from outsourcing, adaptation is required to deal with interdependencies as the design evolves. Achieving ...