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Operations of online advertising and publisher's options
(2010)
The purpose of this master's thesis is to develop a new revenue model for the online advertising industry with a specific focus on the impact of uncertain demand and a way to mitigate the risk. The research will guide the ...
Safety in numbers and power in determining strategy evolution in the game of Chicken
(2007)
Game theory has been used in computer simulations to model bargaining and conflict behavior. The game of Chicken, in particular, recognizes the need for a cooperative collusive strategy for the success of the competitors. ...
Economic incentive mechanisms for user-contributed wireless networks
(2009)
User-contributed wireless networks are formed by wireless devices that are owned by different users. They have been widely used to achieve better connectivity at places where an infrastructure is not immediately available ...
Simulating a multi-stage screening network -a queueing theory and game theory application
(2014)
Based on queueing theory and game theory, simulation is used to study a model for balancing congestion and security of a screening system. Security network is realistic and used in practice, but is complex to analyze, ...
Modeling and Simulating the Network Behavior of Agencies during Disaster Relief Operations
(2014)
The objective of this dissertation is to advance the study of disaster response and recovery (generally, disaster relief) by providing insight and tools to agencies that work in disaster relief. In disaster relief, resources ...
Incorporation of Decision and Game Theories in Early-Stage Complex Product Design to Model End-Use
(2012)
The need for design models that accurately capture the complexities of products increase as products grow ever more complicated. The accuracies of these models depend upon the inputs and the methods used on those inputs ...
Modeling Free-gym as an Incentive Game between Healthcare Insurance Company and Policy Subscribers
(2011)
Incentive game can be applied in health insurance industry to help insurance companies and policy subscribers to get a win-win result. Generally, insured people would like to pay less money for insurance and get good service ...
Food Supply Chain Risk Management: A Sequential Game between Retailers and Regulating Government in the face of Strategic Consumers
(2011)
In food supply chain, the retailers may add some chemical additives to increase the food demand and sales profit, which may cause health problems to the consumers. Government could use punishment policy to deter such risky ...
Engagement-based Analyses of the Growth of Online Health Forums
(2017)
The emerging research on nurturing the growth of online communities posits that it is in part attributed to the network effects, wherein every increase in the volume of user-generated content increases the value of the ...
Engagement-based Analyses of the Growth of Online Health Forums
(2017)
The emerging research on nurturing the growth of online communities posits that it is in part attributed to the network effects, wherein every increase in the volume of user-generated content increases the value of the ...