incentive
RSS incentiveO2 considers high fibre rollout
News The rules, therefore, currently state that market-dominating networks need to be opened up to competitors; many see this as a poor incentive for fresh investment. Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough £1.5bn into a fibre-access... [17 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Enemies of the state
Comment The real problem is the UK government's abandonment of developing talent and its lack of incentive to drive innovation at grassroots level. Failure to foster innovation and talent is what's really coming home to roost, says the Naked CIO. [14 Jul 2008]
An Amortized Tit-for-Tat Protocol for Exchanging Bandwidth Instead of Content in P2P Networks
White Paper The principle of the incentive mechanisms in current content sharing P2P networks such as BitTorrent is to have peers exchange content of mutual interest. Incentives for resource sharing are crucial for the proper operation of P2P networks. [11 Jul 2008]
Multi-Bid Auctions for Bandwidth Allocation in Communication Networks
White Paper The scheme is based on second-price auctions, which are known to be incentive compatible when a single indivisible item is to be sold (users have no interest to lie about the price they are willing to pay for the resource) and to lead to an... [11 Jul 2008]
Inter-Overlay Cooperation in High-Bandwidth Overlay Multicast
White Paper To motivate such a kind of cooperation, the paper designs a reputation-based incentive mechanism that differentiates user' streaming qualities based on the amount of data actually forwarded by individual users. [11 Jul 2008]
Towards Internet-Wide Multipath Routing
White Paper This paper surveys flexible multipath routing techniques which are both scalable and incentive compatible. Today's Internet would be more efficient and robust if routers could flexibly divide traffic over multiple paths. [11 Jul 2008]
Incentive, Resilience and Load Balancing in Multicasting Through Clustered de Bruijn Overlay Network
White Paper In that context peers should have incentive to cooperate. Each node thus has incentive to forward since recipients send back other packets of the stream. This paper considers the problem of multicasting a stream of packets in a large scale peer-to... [10 Jul 2008]
Are banks going soft on e-crime?
News The committee's follow-up report says banks may have a "commercial" incentive not to refer cases to the police, and committee member Lord Broers said banks were referring "very few cases" - something the industry denies. [08 Jul 2008]
UK worst in Europe for green IT
News He said: "There is a strong financial incentive, if you are using products which consume a third of the energy as other offerings you could save a six-figure sum over the three- to five-year investment time frame of a data centre network. [08 Jul 2008]
mySAP Financials: SAP Incentive and Commission Management
White Paper SAP Incentive and Commission Management is a cross-industry solution that lets organizations process incentives and commissions quickly as well as adapt rapidly to changing business conditions and track the history of changes to incentive and... [03 Jul 2008]
The Value of Human Capital Management
White Paper If a company enjoys an increase in business, its human capital efforts may include improving recruiting programs, accelerating high potential leadership initiatives, and implementing incentive programs consistent with reaping the benefits of the... [03 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Games skills gap, student outsourcing, ID card fears
Comment Give them a little incentive and you might create a craze with the potential to create vastly more games developers than the Speccy age ever generated. The games industry is the latest to suffer the dreaded skills gap - but who's to blame? [27 Jun 2008]
Google: It pays to make ads work
News Google has a financial incentive to make sure advertising can support companies that supply high-quality content, Schmidt said during an on-stage interview in San Francisco with Ken Auletta, The New Yorker's media reporter. [12 Jun 2008]
Taxpayer "lost" £90m on QinetiQ sell-off
News The PAC attacks the fact that QinetiQ's managers were allowed to negotiate their own incentive packages with bidders before Carlyle had been chosen. The Treasury was also criticised for giving the MoD an incentive to rush through the sale by... [10 Jun 2008]
NCA Partner Online Series: Increase Services Revenue With the Big Easy Offer
White Paper The "Big Easy" offer from Microsoft is an incentive program that rewards customers who make a purchase by June 27th with a services subsidy that they redeem with a partner (i.e.cash for you! Microsoft found customers consistently have a better... [30 May 2008]
