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Modelling Critical Impeding Factors of Gamification Adoption: An ISM‐MICMAC Analysis
Global Business and Organizational Excellence, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gamification is a transformative technology that attracts consumers and motivates them toward desired actions through fun and engagement. Despite its growing popularity and influence on user behavior, gamification faces significant challenges in acceptance and implementation due to behavioral, technological, economic, and regulatory factors ...
Wamika Sharma +4 more
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STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF ONLINE AUCTIONS [PDF]
International Journal of Modern Physics C, 2006 We characterize the statistical properties of a large number of online auctions run on eBay. Both stationary and dynamic properties, like distributions of prices, number of bids etc., as well as relations between these quantities are studied. The analysis of the data reveals surprisingly simple distributions and relations, typically of power-law form.
Namazi, Alireza, Schadschneider, Andreas
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Consumer attitudes, willingness to pay and hedonic evaluations of innovative legume gnocchi products
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Volume 105, Issue 5, Page 2867-2878, 30 March 2025.Abstract BACKGROUND With growing concerns over the adverse effects of animal‐derived products on health, animal welfare and the environment, the rising popularity of plant‐based foods underscores the importance of understanding consumer preferences and determining acceptance.
Muhammad Adzran Che Mustapa +5 more
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Optimal bidding in online auctions [PDF]
Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, 2009 Online auctions are arguably one of the most important and distinctly new applications of the Internet. The predominant player in online auctions, eBay, has over 42 million users, and it was the host of over $9.3 billion worth of goods sold just in the year 2001.
Bertsimas, Dimitris J. +2 more
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Are Start‐Up Acquisitions by Dominant Firms Driving Innovation or Killing Competition?
Managerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper develops a sequential model to examine start‐up acquisitions in markets with network externalities, incorporating a pre‐entry strategic buyout option that allows the incumbent to integrate the start‐up's innovation, followed by post‐entry expenditure on coordination advertising, and defensive pricing strategies.
Adele Whelan, Kate Hynes
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Multi-Agent Based Cargo Auction
Applied Computer Systems, 2015 The paper presents a mechanism and an implemented tool for multi-agent based cargo auctions. The auction automates negotiations between a particular client and multiple logistics companies.
Lavendelis Egons, Grundspenkis Janis
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Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2022 This research incorporated an auction mechanism into the vehicle routing problem with occasional drivers and produced simulations in an agent-based environment. Auctions were used to match online orders with potential occasional drivers.
Chung-Wei Shen +2 more
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Exploring the Role of Special Events in Relationship Fundraising
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The relationship fundraising paradigm conceptualizes charitable giving as an outcome of ongoing interpersonal engagement between donors and organizations, often depicted in practice as a cyclical process with multiple phases. This study examines how special events—a widely used but understudied relationship fundraising tool—factor into this ...
Jason L. Jensen +3 more
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iBid: A Competitive Bidding Environment for Multiscale Tailor
JOIV: International Journal on Informatics Visualization, 2017 Nowadays, various online auction web services are available, allowing people to bid on items to be purchased at a competitive price. The same approach is applicable to allow people to bid on projects on Freelancer website. Here, we present an environment
Muhaini Othman +4 more
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Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents the first end‐to‐end framework that combines guidance, navigation, and centralized task allocation for multiple UAVs performing autonomous search‐and‐rescue (SAR) in GNSS‐denied indoor environments. A twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient controller is trained with an artificial potential field (APF) reward that ...
Thomas Hickling +3 more
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