Pricing decision with conspicuous customers: quick responses versus value-added services

Added Value and Pricing with Information Technology

Conspicuous Consumption and Dynamic Pricing

H do firms develop marketing strategy when consumers seek to satisfy both quality and status-related considerations? We develop an analytical model to study this issue, examining both pricing and product management decisions in markets for conspicuous durable goods. Our analysis yields many interesting and nontrivial insights. First, we demonstrate that high intrinsic quality indirectly generat...

SAVED: Secure Android Value addED services

The availability of free Software Development Kits for recent mobile device platforms challenges many developers in realizing applications for the growing Smartphone market. In many cases such applications may interoperate in their working environment using mechanisms similar to the inter-process communication (IPC) and made available by the mobile operating system. Unfortunately, mobile device...

Qos Integration in Value Added Web Services

Nowadays, Value Added Web Services (VAWS) are becoming a hot spot for web services providers. Quality of Service (QoS) support in VAWS is an important issue. The need for providing and assuring an acceptable level of QoS is the objective of most of service providers. Service providers compete in satisfying requirements of potential clients by providing QoS support of VAWS. In this work, we prop...

Wireless value-added services in exhibition shows

Abstract: This paper discusses the development and trial of a Wireless Exhibition Guide that employs mobile, wireless, and indoor positioning technologies to introduce sophisticated information, communication, and navigation exhibition services, thus, leveraging the value proposition of exhibition stakeholders. Results indicate user acceptance of the system and provide guidance towards the futu...