Advent of Internet has resulted in e-commerce replacing traditional selling of digital products (such as songs, videos,movies, software, books, documents, images, etc.) through shops. This mode of sale can bring the product price down as infrastructure cost in setting up shops and retail chain is reduced. On downside, however, this may increase problem of piracy as digital data can be easily co...

Ownership is a common concept underlying many social activities – buying, selling, renting and giving etc. For a software agent to operate in an open environment like Agentcities, it may be necessary for it to reason about ownership. This paper provides a brief overview of ownership issues for computer agents and an approach towards a coherent ontological framework for reasoning about agent own...

Inequality in land ownership remains a major issue in many developing countries, such as Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa. Donors advocate a new model of “willing-buyer willing-seller”, market-led land redistribution, but actual redistribution has fallen short of expectations. Little effort has been made so far to formalize the obstacles to market-led land redistribution. In this paper, we sh...

B2B e-marketplaces drastically alter the structure of buyer-seller relationships. To study the equilibrium of a buyer-seller exchange network before and after the emergence of emarketplaces, we develop a multiple-person noncooperative game, where rational firms select optimal interfirm connections and the network is endogenously formed and evolved. We examine when previous buyer-seller relation...

the seller must deliver the goods in conformity with the contract. one of cases of conformity is its conformity with the contract in terms of quantity. namely, the seller must deliver the goods that are equal with the specified amount in the contract. in practice, the delivered goods may be larger than the amount specified in the contract. in iranian law, where the goods are larger than contrac...

the purpose of this research is to evaluate the effective factors on relational marketing in mature relationships between buyer-seller. transaction versus relationship has been considered as a very important topic for research. in this research, marketing strategies are evaluated from two perspectives. the first view is marketing mix management (transactional marketing). transactional marketing...

Abstract The question as to whether the buyer of immovable property should still be able receive ownership in case seller goes bankrupt prior conveyance, has sparked academic debate many jurisdictions. In context property, scholars feel it is justified provide additional protective measures favour and hence buyers with some sort proprietary interest, conveyance. But exactly which circumstances ...

in this article, decisions about price and stock allocation for a seller with multiple customer classes are analyzed. with each customer arrival, the seller needs to decide about accepting or rejecting the customer’s demand by considering the stock on hand. in the case of acceptance, one needs to decide about the selling price. after any change in the inventory level, decision about continuing ...