This article addresses the different levels of pricing strategies for an online knowledge market. Based on the best practice from Google Answers, an online knowledge market is modeled as a marketplace where consumers ask and researchers answer questions to make knowledge transactions. Consumers optimally price their questions to obtain answers, and a firm maintains the online knowledge market b...

Since the early 2000’s, the online games have been recognized as a major profit model within Ecommerce and have been developed into the core of the world cultural industries. However, online game industry has encountered higher competition in global market. To survive successfully in today’s competitive online game markets, they need to determine who the target customers are and what motivates ...

A large share of the ads displayed by digital publishers (e.g., newspapers and blogs) are sold via intermediaries Google), that have market power reportedly allocate in an opaque way. We study incentives intermediary to disclose consumer information advertisers when auctioning ad impressions. show disclosing enables optimize allocation on multi-homing consumers is profitable only if advertising...

A reputation management system can promote trust in transactions in an online consumer-to-consumer (C2C) market. We model a C2C market by employing an agent-based approach. To discuss the characteristics of goods traded on the market, we define temptation and contribution indexes based on the payoff matrix of a game. According to the results of a simulation conducted with the model, we find tha...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a simple dynamic model to analyze researchers' interest in answering questions for an online question and answer (Q&A) knowledge market. With use of a System Dynamics model, an online knowledge market can be modeled as a marketplace where consumers ask and researchers answer questions to make knowledge transactions. In this market, consumers price their q...

and "information." Data are empirical measA minicomputer online information retrieval ures of reality. Data do not become information program is described that is designed to faciliuntil they are compiled, processed, and organtate timely distribution of agricultural market ized so that they can have value to a decision news to state and county research and extenmaker (Riemenschneider). The comp...