An unavoidable aspect of electronic commerce is the collection of personal information. Although personal information is paramount to improving services and designing personalized offerings, its collection and use also generates privacy concerns. This study analytically examines the optimal information collection and usage practices in the presence of privacy costs. We use an analytical model i...

Blockchain technology is a distributed ledger with records of data containing all details the transactions carried out and among nodes present in network. All system are confirmed by consensus mechanisms, once stored cannot be altered. necessary behind Bitcoin, which popular digital Cryptocurrency. ''Cloud computing practice using network remote servers hosted on internet to store, manage, proc...

Although Advance Selling and Probabilistic Selling differ in both motivation and implementation, we argue that they share a common characteristic—both offer consumers a choice involving buyer uncertainty. We develop a formal model to examine the general economics of purchase options that involve buyer uncertainty, explore the differences in buyer uncertainty created via these two strategies, an...