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Promoting synergies for sustainability through peer-to-peer sharing: an analysis of drivers and barriers

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ralph Hansmann

Peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing may foster sustainability synergistically by saving resources, reducing costs and promoting satisfaction of consumer needs and social connectivity. A survey of Swiss and Swedish consumers (N = 1522) was conducted to analyze drive ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2023

Price-based regulation of oligopolistic markets under discrete choice models of demand

Michel Bierlaire, Virginie Janine Camille Lurkin, Stefano Bortolomiol

We propose a framework to find optimal price-based policies to regulate markets characterized by oligopolistic competition and in which consumers make a discrete choice among a finite set of alternatives. The framework accommodates general discrete choice ...

2022

Nonlinear Pricing of Shareable Products

Thomas Alois Weber

We consider a durable-goods monopolist who is able to control the collaborative consumption of its goods on an aftermarket by a sharing tariff. Consumers are heterogeneous with respect to their respective need propensities in each period. We show that the ...

2020

Airline customers connection time preferences in domestic U.S. markets

Michel Bierlaire, Virginie Janine Camille Lurkin

Within the United States, there have been evolving perceptions on the benefits and disadvantages of using peaked flight schedules. Arguments in favor of using peaked schedules have centered on a traditional assumption that consumers prefer itineraries with ...

2019

Dynamic Learning in Markets: Pricing, Advertising, and Information Acquisition

Thomas Alois Weber

In the face of demand uncertainty, a monopolist can observe sales as a controlled reaction to its price and advertising so as to improve the choice of this marketing mix in the future. Furthermore, to upgrade its knowledge about demand the firm has the opt ...

2019

Understanding the Information-Based Transformation of Strategy and Society

Thomas Alois Weber

The world economy is undergoing dramatic changes, largely driven by the new availability of fine-grained information. Innovative ways of using datalarge and small-have also prompted a rethinking of the boundaries for the combination and use of knowledge. T ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

Product Pricing in a Peer-to-Peer Economy

Thomas Alois Weber

The emergence of a collaborative economy has been driven by advances in information technology that allow consumers to borrow and rent goods among peers on a secondary sharing market. In a dynamic setting, consumers make intertemporal decisions about purch ...

Taylor and Francis Group2016

Multilevel Micro-Structuring of Glassy Carbon for Precision Glass Molding of Diffractive Optical Elements

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Karin Prater

A consumer market for diffractive optical elements in glass can only be created if high efficient elements are available at affordable prices. In diffractive optics the efficiency and optical properties increases with the number of levels used, but in the ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Brief Introduction to the Special Issue on Behavior Understanding for Arts and Entertainment

This editorial introduction describes the aims and scope of the special issue of the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems on Behavior Understanding for Arts and Entertainment, which is being published in issues 2 and 3 of volume 5 of the jou ...

2015

Computationally efficient background subtraction in the light field domain

Martin Vetterli, Mahdad Hosseini Kamal, Alireza Ghasemi

Since the invention of first camera, people have always thought of new ways to capture moments. With the advent of digital photography, not only imaging systems have progressed, but also technology provides new user experience. The recently introduced ligh ...

International Society for Optics and Photonics2014

SmartD: Smart Meter Data Analytics Dashboard

Karl Aberer, Matteo Vasirani, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya, Aylin Jarrah Nezhad

The ability of smart meters to communicate energy consumption data in (near) real-time enables data analytics for novel applications, such as pervasive demand response, personalized energy feedback, outage management, and theft detection. Smart meter data ...

2014

Benefits and Scepticism of Ecolabels as Accountability Mechanism

Ralf Seifert, Joana Maria Comas Marti

Environmental labelling is an accountability mechanism for firms to satisfy growing demands to prove that value chains are sustainably managed. Although the large variety of ecolabels available today can be interpreted as a sign of their success, it is ove ...

Emerald2012

Game-theoretic Models of Web Credibility

Karl Aberer

Research on Web credibility assessment can significantly benefit from new models that are better suited for evaluation and study of adversary strategies. Currently employed models lack several important aspects, such as the explicit modeling of Web content ...

ACM2012

Structures with adaptive stiffness and damping integrating shear thickening fluids

Jan-Anders Edvin Maansson, Véronique Michaud, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, John Christopher Plummer, Christian Fischer, Sébastien Lavanchy, Razvan Cristian Neagu

The invention relates in particular to a method to process composite structures with tailored stiffness and damping performance incorporating a smart material, namely a shear thickening fluid (STF), preferably at the interface between two elements belongin ...

2009