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Profit-Aware Edge Server Placement

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022
In a 5G network, mobile-edge computing (MEC) plays a key role in providing low access delay services. The placement of edge servers not only determines the quality of services on the user side but also affects the profit of running a MEC system.
Yuanzhe Li   +3 more
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Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit

Financial Cryptography, 2020
Credit allows a lender to loan out surplus capital to a borrower. In the traditional economy, credit bears the risk that the borrower may default on its debt, the lender hence requires an upfront collateral from the borrower, plus interest fee payments.
Kaihua Qin   +3 more
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Why resource-based theory's model of profit appropriation must incorporate a stakeholder perspective

Strategic Management Journal, 2018
Research Summary: Using arguments derived from transactions cost economics and incomplete contract theory, this article shows that the assumption that shareholders are a firm's only residual claimants is logically inconsistent with resource‐based theory ...
J. Barney
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The Profits of Not-for-Profit Hospitals

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 1988
This paper explores the profits of not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals and identifies the factors that determine whether such profits are adequate. A model which relates hospital charges to surpluses is used to derive NFP surplus from gross patient charges and operating costs.
Cyril F. Chang, Howard P. Tuckman
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Profitability and Profit-Sharing

The Journal of Industrial Economics, 1986
Claims that profit-sharing is a purely distributive "wealth confiscation scheme" without incentive effects (due to free-rider problems) are based on neglect of cooperation and interaction in the workforce. When these activities are difficult to monitor directly, group incentives such as profit-sharing can increase efficiency and maintain a superior ...
FitzRoy, Felix R, Kraft, Kornelius
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Profit Allocation for Federated Learning

2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2019
Due to stricter data management regulations such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), traditional production mode of machine learning services is shifting to federated learning, a paradigm that allows multiple data providers to train a joint ...
Tianshu Song, Yongxin Tong, Shuyue Wei
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Race for Profit

, 2019
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing ...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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