Retail fairness: Exploring consumer perceptions of fairness towards retailers’ marketing tactics

Towards Fairness of Cryptocurrency Payments

Motivated by the great success and adoption of Bitcoin, a number of cryptocurrencies such as Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Ethereum are becoming increasingly popular. Although existing blockchainbased cryptocurrency schemes can ensure reasonable security for transactions, they do not consider any notion of fairness. Fair exchange allows two players to exchange digital “items”, such as digital signatu...

Perceptions of Fairness and Allocation Systems

This paper explores the conditions of acceptability of differing allocation systems under scarcity and evaluates what makes a price system more or less fair. We find that fairness in an allocation arrangement depend on the institutional settings inherent in the situation, such as information, transparency and competition and the perceived institutional quality (e.g., fiscal exchange and institu...

TCP Libra : Exploring RTT-Fairness for TCP

The majority of Internet users rely on the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to download large multimedia files from remote servers (e.g. P2P file sharing). TCP has been advertised as a fair-share protocol. However, when session round-trip-times (RTTs) radically differ from each other, the share (of the bottleneck link) may be anything but fair. This motivates us to explore a new TCP, TCP Lib...

Designing a new marketing model for retailers of fast-moving consumer products (Case study: Retailers supported by Saman Bank)

Retailers are using new technologies to meet the ever-changing needs of consumers. The most important factor in determining the rapid consumption of products is their sales speed. Increasing the level of competition between retail units and expanding the range of customers' choice, has caused these units to pay special attention to customers who make instant purchases. In this regard, Saman Ban...

Fairness, Computable Fairness, and Randomness