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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Online auctions"”.
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Buyout prices in online auctions
… price an item listed for sale through an online auction. A temporary buyout option disappears once a regular bid above the reserve price is made, while a permanent option remains available until it is exercised or the auction ends. Buyout options are widely used in online auctions and have …
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Online Auctions with Multiple Items
Motivated by a recent switch of online ad exchanges from second-price auctions to firstprice auctions, this thesis studies computational problems related to how an advertiser can select bids to maximize her cumulative reward when participating in a sequence of single-item f irst-price auctions, or …
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Two topics in online auctions
… studies two operations management topics in online auctions, and is divided into two parts. Motivated by the increasing use of ShopBots to scan Internet auctions, the first part of the thesis analytically examines whether or not two competing auctioneers selling the same commodity should …
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An Exploratory Analysis of Public Resource Online Auctions
… analysis of public resources’ allocation through online auctions. Online auctions are new ways of public resource allocation in China, but they are promising because of its broad participation and low transaction costs. In addition, compared to traditional administrative allocation mechanisms, …
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Online auctions in procurement : the cost/goodwill tradeoff
Industry is rapidly adopting online auctions. Many of these auctions are occurring in the procurement of component supplies. While there are tremendous expectations for this technology, there is little data or study looking at the implications of the technology. This thesis aims to provide some …
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Exploring and Modeling Online Auctions Using Functional Data Analysis
… popularity of eCommerce, and particularly online auctions has stirred a great amount of scholarly research, especially in information systems, economics, and marketing, but little or no attention has been received from statistics. ECommerce arrives with enormous amounts of rich and clean …
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Legal Issues in Online Auctions in Germany and the U.S.A.
… and judicial decisions around Internet Auctions is consequentially increasing, because there is more and more business transacted by way of Internet Auction. These judgments were rendered in various fields of law so that one cannot say that there exists a special "Law of Internet …
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Essays on Electricity and Sequential Auctions
… asymmetry of firm sizes. The essay on sequential auctions studies how to set the optimal starting price in online auctions. The distinctive characteristic of online auctions is that a seller can resell an item that failed to sell at earlier auctions to a new set of buyers. The existing literature …
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Perceptions of online swine auction websites: A qualitative study
… of consumers. One specific area of e-commerce is online auctions, which allow participants to bid on goods or services regardless of geographic location. Within agriculture, online auctions have grown in popularity, including those within the swine industry. Online swine auctions have existed for …
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Supervised Classification of Imbalanced Bidding Fraud Data
Online auctions have become one of the most convenient ways to commit fraud since a huge amount of money is being invested everyday by thousands of customers. Hence, online auctions are vulnerable to several types of fraud. Shill Bidding (SB), a predominant auction fraud, is the toughest to …
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A Statistical Performance Model of Homogeneous Raidb Clusters
… information storage and retrieval. However, with online auctions, rapid Internet searches, and data archival, the need for more powerful database systems is also growing. One type of distributed database is called <em>Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Databases</em> (RAIDb). RAIDb clusters are …
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Bidding strategies in reverse auctions for the automotive industry procurement
… edge. One of these new alternatives is online auctions used as a procurement tool. And because of their novelty, it is still unclear whether they are a flawless method of decreasing costs. Although there are many issues concerning this topic, the one addressed here is how the bidders' …
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Essays on information and investment
… markets had real economic consequences in online auctions for fine wine.
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Primal-Dual Techniques for Online Algorithms and Mechanisms
… one that knows the entire input in advance. An online algorithm, however, processes its input in a serial fashion. In contrast to offline algorithms, an online algorithm works in a local fashion and has to make irrevocable decisions without having the entire input. Online algorithms are often …
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Unifying Databases and Internet-Scale Publish/Subscribe
… application domains: personal (e.g., RSS feeds, online auctions), financial (e.g., portfolio monitoring), security (e.g., reporting network anomalies), etc.</p><p>Early publish/subscribe systems were based on predefined subjects (channels), and were too coarse-grained to meet the specific …
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Product attribute as an important dimension in developing online auction strategy for businesses
Online auctions represent one of the most interesting developments in electronic commerce. On the one hand, it presents great opportunities - enabling businesses to reach large group of buyers, liquidate products at market-driven prices, and lower transaction costs. On the other hand, it makes …
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Three Essays on Understanding Mobile Consumer Behavior: Business Models, Perceptions, and Features
… of the people in the West can access and use online resources, anytime and anywhere. Consumers also can communicate and share their consumption experiences instantaneously. Platforms reach users for time-critical events through highly personal communication channels, in the sense that …
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Online Auction Markets
… this dissertation investigates the</p><p>role of online auctions; it is composed of three essays.</p><p>The first essay, ``Online Auction Demand,'' investigates seller and</p><p>buyer interactions via online auction websites, such as eBay. Such</p><p>auction sites are among the earliest prominent …