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48 results for merchant service providers

Research examines motivations and factors influencing retailers' payment method choices.

problem Understanding motivations and factors affecting retailers' payment method choices.
method Qualitative and quantitative analysis of various factors including regulatory constraints, merchant service providers, and demographic variables.
result Lower interchange fees and regulatory constraints make card payment adoption financially feasible for merchants.

OTT services are replacing traditional telecom services, affecting revenue streams.

problem OTT services are reducing traditional telecom revenue streams.
method Quantitative analysis of mobile user trends and revenue changes.
result OTT services are becoming more prevalent and impacting telecom revenue.

Service system dynamics occur at the interplay between customer behaviour and a service provider's response. This kind of dynamics can effectively be modeled within the framework of queuing theory where customers' arrivals are described by point process models. However, these approaches are limited by parametric assump…

2019-06-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning methods are widely used for a variety of prediction problems. \emph{Prediction as a service} is a paradigm in which service providers with technological expertise and computational resources may perform predictions for clients. However, data privacy severely restricts the applicability of such services…

2018-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper is the first attempt to formalize a new field of economics; studding the Intangibles Goods available on the Internet. We are taking advantage of the digital world's specific rules, in particular the zero marginal cost, to propose a theory of trading & sharing unified. A function based money is created as a w…

2014-05-07abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper tackles fair same-day delivery service by optimizing regional service rates.

problem Fairness in same-day delivery service for different neighborhoods.
method Partition service area into regions, use multi-objective Markov decision process and deep Q-learning.
result Our approach maximizes fairness across all regions while maintaining overall service rate.

With the widespread use of machine learning (ML) techniques, ML as a service has become increasingly popular. In this setting, an ML model resides on a server and users can query it with their data via an API. However, if the user's input is sensitive, sending it to the server is undesirable and sometimes even legally …

2018-08-01abs ↗pdf ↗

AI agent predicts industry and product/service codes for companies.

problem Manual curation of company data is expensive and prone to errors.
method Hierarchical multi-class industry code classifier with multi-label product/service code classifier.
result High accuracy (92-96%) achieved with limited labeled data.

Classification-as-a-Service (CaaS) is widely deployed today in machine intelligence stacks for a vastly diverse set of applications including anything from medical prognosis to computer vision tasks to natural language processing to identity fraud detection. The computing power required for training complex models on l…

2019-08-08abs ↗pdf ↗

In the last two decades, automatic extractive text summarization on lectures has demonstrated to be a useful tool for collecting key phrases and sentences that best represent the content. However, many current approaches utilize dated approaches, producing sub-par outputs or requiring several hours of manual tuning to …

2019-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Voice-enabled interactions provide more human-like experiences in many popular IoT systems. Cloud-based speech analysis services extract useful information from voice input using speech recognition techniques. The voice signal is a rich resource that discloses several possible states of a speaker, such as emotional sta…

2019-08-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Noise injection improves inference privacy in DNN models.

problem Malicious servers can infer sensitive attributes from input data.
method Adaptive Noise Injection (ANI) using a lightweight DNN on the client.
result Significant improvement in privacy (up to 48.5% degradation in sensitive-task accuracy with <1% degradation in primary accuracy).

Study on electronic banking satisfaction in Nigeria.

problem Limited research on factors enhancing end users' satisfaction in electronic banking.
method Empirical analysis of factors influencing electronic banking user satisfaction.
result Factors influencing electronic banking user satisfaction and their relationship with satisfaction.

Automated service classification plays a crucial role in service discovery, selection, and composition. Machine learning has been widely used for service classification in recent years. However, the performance of conventional machine learning methods highly depends on the quality of manual feature engineering. In this…

2018-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Cloak identifies essential features to preserve prediction privacy without provider collaboration.

problem Discovering the subset of features necessary for a prediction task.
method Gradient-based perturbation maximization method to identify essential features, followed by suppression of the rest using utility-preserving constant values.
result Cloak reduces mutual information between input and sifted representations by 85.01% with negligible utility loss.

The authors characterize flexibility in power and energy markets considering time, spatiality, resource, and risk.

problem Evaluating and maximizing flexibility in power systems and markets.
method Characterization of flexibility dimensions (time, spatiality, resource, risk) and their interrelations with flexibility assets, products, and services.
result Flexibility should be evaluated based on multiple dimensions for efficient power systems and markets.

Recently, the online car-hailing service, Didi, has emerged as a leader in the sharing economy. Used by passengers and drivers extensive, it becomes increasingly important for the car-hailing service providers to minimize the waiting time of passengers and optimize the vehicle utilization, thus to improve the overall u…

2018-04-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper uses RL to optimize SFC deployment and VNF management in NFV networks.

problem Optimizing SFC deployment and VNF management in NFV networks to reduce packet loss.
method Reinforcement Learning (PPO) to optimize SFC deployment and VNF management.
result PPO agent reduces packet loss in SFC deployment and VNF management.

Framework optimizes targeting high-need individuals while estimating treatment effects.

problem Balancing resource allocation to high-need individuals with evaluating treatment effects.
method Proposes a framework to design randomized allocation rules that balance targeting high-need recipients with learning treatment effects.
result Optimized policies can significantly mitigate the tradeoff between targeting high-need individuals and estimating treatment effects.

The grid integration of intermittent Renewable Energy Sources (RES) causes costs for grid operators due to forecast uncertainty and the resulting production schedule mismatches. These so-called profile service costs are marginal cost components and can be understood as an insurance fee against RES production schedule u…

2014-07-27abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper assesses VASPs' solvency using multiple data sources.

problem Insolvency risk in VASPs without systematic auditing.
method Cross-referencing cryptoasset wallets, balance sheets, and supervisory data.
result Inconsistent data between DLT transactions and balance sheets for some VASPs.

BESS shows potential in European markets for frequency support, but not for energy arbitrage.

problem Lack of profitability for BESS in energy arbitrage in most European markets.
method Proposed a general payoff model for BESS operation and calculated utilization factors for common applications.
result BESS shows higher potential in providing frequency support services, especially in Central Western and Northern Europe.

Developing reliable workload predictive models can affect many aspects of clinical decision making procedure. The primary challenge in healthcare systems is handling the demand uncertainty over the time. This issue becomes more critical for the healthcare facilities that provide service for chronic disease treatment be…

2018-12-27abs ↗pdf ↗

The key characteristic of a true free market economy is that exchanges are entirely voluntary. When there is a monopoly in the creation of currency as we have in today's markets, you no longer have a true free market. Features of the current economic system such as central banking and taxation would be nonexistent in a…

2015-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the decentralized exploration problem: a set of players collaborate to identify the best arm by asynchronously interacting with the same stochastic environment. The objective is to insure privacy in the best arm identification problem between asynchronous, collaborative, and thrifty players. In the context …

2018-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

BreachRadar detects points-of-compromise in bank transactions to prevent fraud.

problem Detecting and preventing bank transaction fraud caused by data breaches.
method A distributed alternating algorithm that assigns probabilities to different locations being compromised.
result BreachRadar achieves over 90% precision and recall in detecting compromised cards.

The paper provides an algorithm for the risk estimation when a company selects an outsourcing service provider for innovation product. Calculations are based on expert surveys conducted among customers and among providers of outsourcing. The surveys assessed the degree of materiality of species at risk.

2016-03-16abs ↗pdf ↗