November 15, 2011 In many moral hazard problems, an agent may manipulate the information that the principal observes. This type of fraud has attracted widespread attention in executive performance pay manipulation and public medical insurance fraud. However, fraud is possible but conspicuously absent in many other markets. For example, websites may defraud advertisers by inserting fake clicks o...

Supply chain management frequently faced issues such as service redundancy, poor coordination between several departments, and lack of standardization a result the transparency. Product counterfeiting is something which very common now-a-days it’s almost impossible to detect counterfeit product just by looking at it. Counterfeiters cause significant challenges for legitimate firms, yet far too ...

Counterfeit pharmaceuticals are of concern internationally. In certain regions of the world, the percentage of counterfeit pharmaceuticals present in the consumer marketplace is troubling. For this reason, active testing programs are in place, and they tend to rely on classical analysis methods such as chromatography and wet chemistry. These methods can be time-consuming, labor intensive, and t...

With widespread globalization happening at an alarming speed, the manufacturing and copying of goods has become a matter of routine for counterfeiters. The Internet has provided a new advantage for counterfeiters the opportunity to sell goods without prior consumer inspection. Leveraging this opportunity, deceitful purveyors of imitation goods engage in unethical practices such as selling count...

In this paper we show how event processing over semantically annotated streams of events can be exploited, for implementing tracing and tracking of products in supply chains through the automated generation of linked pedigrees. In our abstraction, events are encoded as spatially and temporally oriented named graphs, while linked pedigrees as RDF datasets are their specific compositions. We prop...

Product counterfeiting is a growing problem worldwide, threatening the health of consumers and reducing company profits. By detecting and intercepting counterfeits before they reach the customer, the problem can be mitigated. In this paper, an approach to detect counterfeit items based on their claimed history is presented. The necessary data is provided by tracking infrastructures that enable ...

Patterning of upconversion luminescent materials has been widely used for anti-counterfeit and security applications, where the preferred method should be easy, fast, multicolor, high-throughput and designable. However, conventional patterning methods are complex and inflexible. Here, we report a digital and flexible inkjet printing based approach for producing high-resolution and high-luminesc...

In order to investigate the efficiency of policies made by the industrial administration office (IAO for short) so as to keep market order, the authors propose a shocked inventory model of one product with both genuine and counterfeit qualities. The checking policies made by the IAO are considered to be a random shock for the inventory model by examination of the qualities of the products, whic...

Finding an efficientmethod to detect counterfeit banknotes is an imperative task in business transactions. In this paper,wepropose a systembased onmultiple-kernel support vectormachines for counterfeit banknote recognition. A support vectormachine (SVM) tominimize false rates is developed. Each banknote is divided intopartitions and the luminancehistogramsof thepartitions are takenas the input ...