The principle of how hazardous pollutants are annulled by rain, dew or precipitations has been a subject of interest in addressing environmental challenges and climate change. This scavenging process when studied generates nonlinear dynamic models that require robust techniques for obtaining...

Cloud Computing ist ein wichtiger Enabler für die digitale Wirtschaft. Cloud Computing kann nicht nur Kosten senken, sondern auch den Zugang zu fortschrittlichen IT-Lösungen verbessern und Innovation und Produktivität in einer Vielzahl von Sektoren fördern. Da Cloud Computing an Dynamik...

The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace large and inflexible fixed-cost investments in IT with more targeted variable spending in cloud solutions. In addition, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of...

The emerging market of cloud computing encourages cloud service providers (CSPs) to deliver efficient and effective services on the basis of appropriate provisioning of service resources. Overprovisioning and underprovisioning of service capacity lead to the wastage of cloud resources and...

This paper examines several causal effects of sunshine exposure on customers’ retail purchasing behavior. We attribute these effects to sunshine-induced mood. Our evidence draws from high-frequency individual-level data tracking sunshine exposure as measured by cloud cover observed at each...

We live in a world where digital images are constantly generated during our daily activities, whether private or business. They play an important role in our private life, showing important moments, people, places, or events and keeping their memory. Images are unavoidable in business,...

We study the incentives of competing banks to outsource their payment services to a common infrastructure, managed by a private third-party provider. The latter stores depositors' information in the cloud and offers compatibility services, but is exposed to cyber risk. In the first-best...