INTRODUCTION The Internet economy is becoming an integral part of many countries' economies, creating new jobs, giving rise to new companies like the dot coms and transforming traditional jobs and traditional companies. The Internet is increasingly becoming a part of the basic business model for many companies as organizations around the world are adopting new e-business models, integrated solu...

A central issue faced by partial-order, cansal-link (POCL) planning systems is how to select which flaw to resolve when generating the refinements of a partial plan. Domain-independent flaw selection strategies have been discussed extensively in the recent literature (Peot ~ Smith 1993; Joslin & Pollack 1994; Schubert & Gerevini 1995). The PYRRHUS planning system is a decision-theoretic extensi...

“Food production and distribution in South Africa, as in most other countries, is undergoing major structural changes caused by changing and diverse consumer demands, new technologies (e.g. bioand information technologies), new product characteristics, changing firm sizes and more exposure to world markets... the structural realignment in agriculture and the formation of new supply chains are p...

In today’s increasingly competitive business environment companies can, and indeed must, respond more rapidly to customers’ changing demands, desires, and preferences. In today’s information-rich environment customers can comparison shop, get product reviews from other customers, and, in general, become very well informed about what is available in the market. • If your offerings are not differ...

This paper develops a duopoly model in which two free video platforms compete for groups of users, i.e., viewers and advertisers. We investigate platforms’ value-added service (VAS) investment strategies ad pricing under situation where only one platform invests viewers. The results reveal that: 1) When marginal cost increases, the platform’s VAS level price first remain constant then decrease;...