The Digital watermarking technology has become increasing popular in the protection digital copyright. However, in the practical application, the watermarking algorithms should be combined with a secure copyright protection protocol to solve the copyright protection problems completely. In this paper, a novel buyer-seller watermarking protocol is proposed for piracy tracing, in which a memoryle...

The recent emergence of internet-based electronic market places is changing the structure of traditional marketing channels in a fundamental way. Collaboration may increase because of lower transaction costs related with increased information availability. At the same time these same factors, through the effect they have on mutual dependency and uncertainty in the buyer-seller dyad, are conside...

Developing and maintaining marketing relationships have been widely examined in the literature. The impact of relationships on firm performance extends the understanding of previously defined key relationship marketing elements. Such an understanding spans the gap between relationship marketing theory and practice. We hypothesis that the relationship marketing attributes of communication, power...

the secure embedding scheme (see Section II), it is hard to generate a watermarked version of c which has a low correlation with k 0. An estimation attack usually yields a watermarked object that still correlates well with k 0 ; a judge will reject the accusation on such an object, as it can only originate from a malicious seller (k 0 is only available to the seller). • Finally, can attempt to ...

Previous research in the area of buyer strategies for choosing sellers in ecommerce markets has focused on frequent purchases. In this paper we present a reputation based buyer strategy for choosing sellers in a decentralized, open, uncertain, dynamic, and untrusted B2C ecommerce market for frequent and infrequent purchases. The buyer models the reputation of the seller after having purchased g...

To get the items that a buyer wants in an Internet auction, he must search for the items through several auction sites. When the bidding starts, the buyer needs to connect to these auction sites frequently so that he can monitor the bid states and re-bid. A reserve-price auction reduces the number of connections, but this limits the user’s bidding strategy. Another problem is equity between the...

We study the relationship between bargaining and competition with incomplete information. We consider a model with two uninformed and identical buyers and two sellers. One of the sellers has a privately-known reservation price, which can either be Low or High. The other seller’s reservation price is commonly known to be in between the Low and High values of the privately-informed seller. Buyers...

This paper studies ex-ante investment incentives of a buyer (a content provider) facing a monopoly input seller (an internet service provider), who employs second-degree price discrimination. As a benchmark, we extend an adverse-selection model by a noncontractible investment stage, which allows the buyer to improve her type. The buyer underinvests due to partial rent extraction by the seller. ...

We study a dynamic buyer-seller problem in which the good is information and there are no property rights. The potential buyer is reluctant to pay for information whose value to him is uncertain, but the seller cannot credibly convey its value to the buyer without disclosing the information itself. Information comes as divisible hard evidence. We show how and why the seller can appropriate a su...

This article reviews experimental work on two party bargaining where a bargainer has information unavailable to the other party. The situation is one where the bargaining is on a single issue only and is distributive, (i.e., the negotiations are on the sharing or distribution of the common gains from trade). Two experimental situations are reviewed and several observations are drawn, including ...