Third Party Delegation; The required governance framework

Symmetric Third-Party Governance of Trades∗

This paper studies individual incentives to pay to the fixed cost of an impartial contract enforcement institution. If agents do not collect enough resources, they could still enforce their trades through an asymmetric enforcement system, where only resourceful agents are able to punish their encounters for cheating. The main results are: (i) When the impartial system excludes non-contributors,...

Multi-agent framework for third party logistics in E-commerce

In an e-commerce environment, the third party logistics (3PL) takes charge of the logistics design, delivery, storage and transportation in a supply chain with its professional and complete value-added services. Beginning with an analysis of the relationships between the 3PL and supply chain members, the authors suggest that only when the 3PL reengineers its logistics business process to accomm...

Toward a Regulatory Framework for Third-Party Funding of Litigation

Party Pooper: Third-Party Libraries in Android

Third-party libraries (3PLs), such as advertising networks, gaming networks, and analytics engines, are an integral part of modern mobile platforms. If Android developers want to integrate functionality provided by 3PLs, they must bundle opaque binary code into their applications. Unfortunately, developers must in essence overprivilege their Android applications by requesting dangerous permissi...

Third-Party Decision