Should Event Organizers Prevent Resale of Tickets?

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Program Committee Liz Bradley (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) Gully Burns (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Ishanu Chattopadhyay (Cornell University, USA) Tim Clark (Harvard University, USA) Anita de Waard (Elsevier) Michel Dumontier (Stanford University, USA) Saso Dzeroski (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) Susan Epstein (e CUNY Graduate School and Hunter College, USA) Ashok Go...

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Program Committee John Collins (University of Minnesota, USA) Shaheen Fatima (University of Loughborough, UK) Enrico Gerding (University of Southampton, UK) Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) Amy Greenwald (Brown University, USA) Gordan Jezic (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Patrick R. Jordan (Microso, USA) Wolf Ketter (RSM Erasmus University, Netherlands) Christopher Kiekintveld (Univer...

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The Role of Price Tiers in Advance Purchasing of Event Tickets

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