the internet is already the primary source of tourist destination information for travelers. according to world tourism organization, about 95% of web users use the internet to gather travel related information and about 93% indicate that they visited tourism web sites when planning for vacations. the number of people turning to the internet for vacation and travel planning has increased more t...

food labeling is found to be a very important public health tool aimed at providing consumers with information which may influence their purchasing decisions. this study has aimed to assess the consumers' behaviors about the important information on the labels and their reasons for use or non-use. this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted as point of purchase survey among 2123 shoppe...

Online double auctions (DAs) model a dynamic two-sided matching problem with private information and self-interest, and are relevant for dynamic resource and task allocation problems. We present a general method to design truthful DAs, such that no agent can benefit from misreporting its arrival time, duration, or value. The family of DAs is parameterized by a pricing rule, and includes a gener...

today advertisement is an important part of all businesses. using false information in these advertisements are always targeting consumers and rival traders. no doubt in these circumstances consumers need to be protected, however, it is not clear what kind of support and protection can be afforded for consumers and how they can be compensated? can they terminate the contract, or they have to ke...