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CREC, at the heart of the Silicon Hills of Austin, is today's leading research center in electronic commerce, digital economy and information technology, in close collaboration with industry and business leaders. See

Wireless and M-Commerce Research
Wireless Research
Wireless Interactive Entertainment

Report on Internet Productivity
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An Empirical Investigation of Net-Enabled Business Value by Anitesh Barua, Prabhudev Konana, Andrew Whinston, and Fang Yin. MISQ Dec. 2004
Managing E-Business Transformation: Opportunities and Value Assessment by Anitesh Barua, Prabhudev Konana, Andrew Whinston, and Fang Yin. Forthcoming in Sloan Management Review.
Measures for E-Business Value Assesment by Anitesh Barua, Prabhudev Konana, Andrew Whinston, and Fang Yin. IEEE IT Pro, Jan/Feb 2001 issue.
Making E-Business Pay: Eight Key Drivers for Operational Success, (in IEEE IT Professional, November|December 2000) by Anitesh Barua, Prabhudev Konana, Andrew Whinston, and Fang Yin
Presentation Slides
Press Release

The Internet Economy Indicators
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The Emerging Internet Economy (Online presentation slides) by Anitesh Barua and Andrew B. Whinston, 1999.
Measuring the Internet Economy.
Report on Internet Economy layers, assumptions,
methodology and findings.
iQ Magazine from Cisco Systems
See B2B Columns, Features page.

Online Publishing
Online Publishing and Learning Resources
BPO Journal -- Outsourcing Blog

Digital Economy Applications and Experiments
Optimal Investment in Knowledge Within a Firm Using a Market Mechanism. By Sulin Ba, Jan Stallert and Andrew B. Whinston, 1999.
Internet Stock Tournament.
Experimental trading market for Internet stocks.
Experimental Digital Economy
A complete online economy as a part of
multi-university experiment for e-business
research and teaching.
How to Organize and Manage Digital Product
Companies

A research project involving multi-university
IS classes.
Bundle Trading Market Website
Java-based bundle trading applications
and experiments (for financial instruments
and other products).
See related article: A Web-Based
Financial Trading System

(in IEEE Computer, April 1999) by Ming Fan,
Jan Stallaert and Andrew B. Whinston.

Electronic Commerce Journals
Decision Support Systems
Downloadable forms for Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce
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Books on Electronic Commerce
Electronic Commerce and the Revolution in Financial Markets
The Internet Economy: Technology and Practice
The Economics of Electronic
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Electronic Commerce:
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Research Papers
An Economic Mechanism for Better Internet Security, (in Decision Support Systems, forthcoming) by Zhao, Fang and Whinston.
Optimal Design of Consumer Contests, (in Journal of Marketing, October 2007) by Liu, Geng and Whinston.
On E-Auctions for Procurement Operations, (in Production and Operations Management, 2007) by Rothkopf and Whinston.
A Market-Based Optimization Algorithm for Distributed Systems, (in Management Science, Aug 2007) by Guo, Koehler and Whinston. [Online Addendum]
Option Contracts and Capacity Management--Enabling Price Discrimination under Demand Uncertainty , (in Production and Operations Management 2007) by Fang and Whinston.
Research Issues in Social Computing , (in Journal of AIS June 2007) by Manoj Parameswaran and Andrew Whinston.
Social Computing: An Overview , (in Communications of AIS 2007) by Manoj Parameswaran and Andrew Whinston.
Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is -- A Betting Platform for Better Prediction , (Review of Network Economics June 2007) by Fang, Stinchcombe, and Whinston.
Profiting from Partial Allowance of Ticket Resale , (Journal of Marketing April 2007) by Geng, Wu, and Whinston.
Reengineering the Internet for Better Security , (IEEE Computer Jan 2007) by Parameswaran, Zhao, Fang, and Whinston.
Defeating DDoS Attacks by Fixing the Incentive Chain, (in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Feb 2007) by Huang, Geng, and Whinston.
Designing online auctions with past performance information , (in Decision Surport Systems December 2006) by Liu and Chen.
Buy-price English auction , (in Journal of Economic Theory July 2006) by Hidvegi, Wang, and Whinston.
Revealing Information in Distributed Computing, (in WeB 2005) by Huang, Geng, and Whinston.
On Profitability and Efficiency of Wireless Mesh Networks, (in WITS 2005) by Fang, Qiu, and Whinston.
Network mapping services for dynamic selection of web services: promises and challenges, (in Information Systems and E-Business Management October 2005) by Huang, Geng, and Whinston.
Managing Risks in Multiple Online Auctions: An Options Approach, (in Decision Sciences Aug 2005) by Gopal, Thompson, Tung, and Whinston.
A Sender-Receiver Framework for Knowledge Transfer, (in MISQ Jun 2005) by Lin, Geng, and Whinston.
Health of Electronic Communities: An Evolutionary Game Approach, (in JMIS Winter 2004-5) by Geng, Whinston and Zhang.
Choice of Transaction Channels: The Effects of Product Characteristics on Market Evolution, (in JMIS Spring 2005) by Ba, Stallaert, Whinston and Zhang.
Bundling Information Goods of Decreasing Value, (in Management Science April 2005) by Geng, Stinchcombe and Whinston.
Hope or Hype: On the Viability of Escrow Services as Trusted Third Parties in Online Auction Environments, (in ISR Sep 2004) by Hu, Lin, Whinston, and Zhang.
Evaluation and Design of Online Cooperative Feedback Mechanisms for Reputation Management, (in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING 2005) by Fan, Tan, and Whinston.
Pricing combinatorial auction , (European Journal of Operational Research 2004) by Xia, Koehler , and Whinston.
Solving the combinatorial double auction problem , (European Journal of Operational Research 2005) by Xia, Stallaert, and Whinston.
A set-theoretical foundation of qualitative reasoning and its application to the modeling of economics and business management problems, Information Systems Frontiers, (in special issue on Business Applications of Uncertain Reasoning, 2003) by Hinkkanen, Lang, and Whinston.
Execution Conditions: A Formalization of Event Cancellation in Simulation Graphs, (in INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2003) by Ingalls,Morrice, Yucesan, and Whinston.
Scaling Web Services with Capacity Provision Networks, (in IEEE Computer, 2003) by Geng, Gopal, Ramesh, and Whinston.
Securing a New Era of Financial Services, (in IEEE IT Professional, 2003) by Long, Yuan, and Whinston.
Trading Caches: Capacity Provision Networks, (in IEEE IT Professional, 2003) by Geng, Gopal, Ramesh, and Whinston.
Building trust in online auction markets through an economic incentive mechanism, (in DSS) by Ba, Whinston, and Zhang.
Decentralized Mechanism Design for Supply Chain Organizations Using an Auction Market, (March 2003 in ISR) by Fan, Stallaert, and Whinston.
Multiple Online Auctions, (IEEE Computer, 2003) by Tung, Gopal, and Whinston.
Next Steps for Mobile Entertainment Portals, (IEEE Computer, 2002) by Raghu,Ramesh, and Whinston.
Defending Wireless Infrastructure Against the Challenge of DDoS Attacks, (ACM Journal on Mobile Networking and Applications) by Geng, Huang, and Whinston.
Virtual field experiments for a digital economy: a new research methodology ..., (in DSS, vol. 32, 2002) by Kim, Barua, and Whinston.
A market-based allocation mechanism for the DiffServ framework, (in DSS, vol. 31, 2001) by Parameswaran, Stallaert, and Whinston.
A new perspective to finance and competition and challenges for financial institutions in the internet era, by Lin, Geng, and Whinston.
Optimal Investment in Knowledge Within a Firm Using a Market Mechanism, (in Management Science, 2001) by Ba, Stallaert, and Whinston.
Research Commentary: Introducing a Third Dimension in Information Systems Design -- The Case for Incentive Alignment, (in ISR, 2001) by Ba, Stallaert, and Whinston.
Profiting from Value-Added Wireless Services, (in IEEE Computer, 2001) by Geng and Whinston.
Myths about Outsourcing to Application Service Providers, (in IEEE IT Professional, 2001) by Susarla, Barua, and Whinston.
P2P Networking: An Information-Sharing Alternative, (in IEEE Computer, 2001) by Parameswaran, Susarla, and Whinston.
Radically New Product Introduction Using On-line Auctions, (in IJEC, Spring 2001) by Geng, Stinchcombe, and Whinston.
E-Process Design and Assurance Using Model Checking, (in IEEE Computer, 2000) by Wang, Hidvegi, Bailey, and Whinston.
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