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Finance for IT decision makers : a practical handbook for buyers, sellers and managers / / Michael Blackstaff
| Finance for IT decision makers : a practical handbook for buyers, sellers and managers / / Michael Blackstaff |
| Autore | Blackstaff Michael <1939-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 1999.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Springer, , [1999] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 214 p. 24 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 004.0681 |
| Collana | Practitioner series |
| Soggetto topico | Information technology - Finance |
| ISBN | 1-4471-0609-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Finance for IT Decision Makers -- 1. Decisions, Decisions -- 2. Financial Cases and Business Cases -- 3. When is a Benefit not a Benefit? -- 4. How Financial Cases are Evaluated - Part 1 -- 5. How Financial Cases are Evaluated - Part 2 -- 6. The Effects of Taxation -- 7. IT Leasing - Part 1 -- 8. IT Leasing - Part 2 -- 9. IT Aspects of Depreciation and Budgets -- 2 Finance Fundamentals in a Nutshell -- 10. Finance Fundamentals - Bringing it Together -- 11. Finance Fundamentals - Pulling it Apart. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910130587603321 |
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| London : , : Springer, , [1999] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pricing communication networks : economics, technology, and modelling / / Costas Courcoubetis, Richard Weber
| Pricing communication networks : economics, technology, and modelling / / Costas Courcoubetis, Richard Weber |
| Autore | Courcoubetis Costas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (379 p.) |
| Disciplina | 384/.043 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | WeberRichard <1953-> |
| Collana | Wiley-Interscience series in systems and optimization |
| Soggetto topico |
Information technology - Finance
Computer networks - Mathematical models Digital communications - Mathematical models |
| ISBN |
1-280-27179-5
9786610271795 0-470-29980-0 0-470-86424-9 0-470-86717-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Pricing Communication Networks; Contents; Preface; List of Acronyms; A Networks; 1 Pricing and Communications Networks; 1.1 The Market for Communications Services; 1.1.1 The Communications Revolution; 1.1.2 Communications Services; 1.1.3 Information Goods; 1.1.4 Special Features of the Communications Market; 1.2 Developments in the Marketplace; 1.3 The Role of Economics; 1.3.1 Overprovision or Control?; 1.3.2 Using Pricing for Control and Signalling; 1.3.3 Who Should Pay the Bill?; 1.3.4 Interconnection and Regulation; 1.4 Preliminary Modelling; 1.4.1 Definitions of Charge, Price and Tariff
1.4.2 Flat Rate versus Usage Charging1.4.3 Dynamic Pricing in an Internet Cafe; 1.4.4 A Model for Pricing a Single Link; 1.5 A Guide to Subsequent Chapters; 1.6 Further Reading; 2 Network Services and Contracts; 2.1 A Classification of Network Services; 2.1.1 Layering; 2.1.2 A Simple Technology Primer; 2.1.3 Value-added Services and Bundling; 2.1.4 Connection-oriented and Connectionless Services; 2.1.5 Guaranteed and Best-effort Services; 2.2 Service Contracts for Transport Services; 2.2.1 The Structure of a Service Contract; 2.2.2 Policing Service Contracts 2.2.3 Static and Dynamic Contract Parameters2.3 Further Reading; 3 Network Technology; 3.1 Network Control; 3.1.1 Entities on which Network Control Acts; 3.1.2 Timescales; 3.1.3 Handling Packets and Cells; 3.1.4 Virtual Circuits and Label Switching; 3.1.5 Call Admission Control; 3.1.6 Routing; 3.1.7 Flow Control; 3.1.8 Network Management; 3.2 Tariffs, Dynamic Prices and Charging Mechanisms; 3.3 Service Technologies; 3.3.1 A Technology Summary; 3.3.2 Optical Networks; 3.3.3 Ethernet; 3.3.4 Synchronous Services; 3.3.5 ATM Services; 3.3.6 Frame Relay; 3.3.7 Internet Services 3.4 Other Types of Services3.4.1 Private and Virtual Networks; 3.4.2 Access Services; 3.5 Charging Requirements; 3.6 A Model of Business Relations for the Internet; 3.7 Further Reading; 4 Network Constraints and Effective Bandwidths; 4.1 The Technology Set; 4.2 Statistical Multiplexing; 4.3 Accepting Calls; 4.4 An Elevator Analogy; 4.5 Effective Bandwidths; 4.6 Effective Bandwidths for Traffic Streams; 4.6.1 The Acceptance Region; 4.7 Some Examples; 4.8 Multiple QoS Constraints; 4.9 Traffic Shaping; 4.10 Effective Bandwidths for Traffic Contracts; 4.11 Bounds for Effective Bandwidths 4.12 Deterministic Multiplexing4.13 Extension to Networks; 4.14 Call Blocking; 4.15 Further Reading; B Economics; 5 Basic Concepts; 5.1 Charging for Services; 5.1.1 Demand, Supply and Market Mechanisms; 5.1.2 Contexts for Deriving Prices; 5.2 The Consumer's Problem; 5.2.1 Maximization of Consumer Surplus; 5.2.2 Elasticity; 5.2.3 Cross Elasticities, Substitutes and Complements; 5.3 The Supplier's Problem; 5.4 Welfare Maximization; 5.4.1 The Case of Producer and Consumers; 5.4.2 The Case of Consumers and Finite Capacity Constraints; 5.4.3 Discussion of Assumptions; 5.4.4 Peak-load Pricing 5.4.5 Walrasian Equilibrium |
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| West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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