Service bundling can be regarded as an option for service providers to strengthen their competitive advantages, cope with dynamic market conditions and heterogeneous consumer demand. Despite these positive effects, actual guidance for the identification of service bundles and the act of bundling itself can be regarded as a gap. Previous research has resulted in a conceptualization of a service ...

Interactive analysis of 3D relational data is challenging. A common way of representing such data are node-link diagrams as they support analysts in achieving a mental model of the data. However, naïve 3D depictions of complex graphs tend to be visually cluttered, even more than in a 2D layout. This makes graph exploration and data analysis less efficient. This problem can be addressed by edge ...

Digital convergence of telecommunication and entertainment media services drove former network monopolists into a prisoner’s dilemma forcing them to enter each others markets. In this reciprocal duopoly firms now offer their services in a bundle commonly known as Triple Play. I investigate whether bundling is indeed a profitable pricing strategy for these services and if it can facilitate marke...

We examine how control over a technology platform can increase profits and innovation. By choosing how much to open and when to bundle enhancements, platform sponsors can influence choices of ecosystem partners. Platform openness invites developer participation but sacrifices direct sales. Bundling enhancements early drives developers away but bundling late delays platform growth. Ironically, d...

The edge-bundling algorithm is applied to visualize the spatial evolution of international scientific collaborative network, which reshaping global landscape. Our analysis fin...

Bundling is a very popular sales-promotion tool, in which a critical issue is to decide what products should be sold together in order to improve sales. Traditionally, this decision is based on the order data collected from the points of sale. However, Internet marketing now allows marketers to efficiently collect not only order data but also browsing and shopping-cart data, which provide marke...

Visualizing graphs containing many nodes and edges efficiently is quite challenging. Drawings of such graphs generally suffer from visual clutter induced by the large amount of edges and their crossings. Consequently, it is difficult to read the relationships between nodes and the high-level edge patterns that may exist in standard nodelink diagram representations. Edge bundling techniques have...

Bundling is a basic problem in commerce. We define and study the Bundling Game: each of n players with a unique product to sell can choose to sell their products in bundles with other players’ products so as to maximize their payoff; the players all have knowledge of the valuations of m (potential) buyers for each of the products. We define two natural classes of payoff functions Fair Profit Sh...

Annexin A2, a calcium-, actin-, and lipid-binding protein involved in exocytosis, mediates the formation of lipid microdomains required for the structural and spatial organization of fusion sites at the plasma membrane. To understand how annexin A2 promotes this membrane remodeling, the involvement of cortical actin filaments in lipid domain organization was investigated. 3D electron tomography...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether and how bundling services may achieve leverage of market power from the telco’s home to a secondary service market (e.g. video broadcasting). Despite digital convergence, in many countries the former telco monopolist remains to hold significant market power in its home market for telecommunication services. Design/methodology/approac...