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Data profiling practices in today’s information age take many shapes and have many faces. They generate both public intrigue and concern, which in many cases make their way to the media and from there to relevant regulators. These latter entities, in turn, struggle in search of a proper regulatory response to the complicated issues set before them. Profiling presents a policy challenge which is indeed...
Whether or not consumers realistically value their private information, why should businesses? This article examines the preconceived notions of the importance of collecting and using consumers' private information with regard to price discrimination and targeted advertising to determine that modern efforts to harness private information in achieving these goals has little long-term value and can...
In an open railway access market price negotiation, it is feasible to achieve higher cost recovery by applying the principles of price discrimination. The price negotiation can be modeled as an optimization problem of revenue intake. In this paper, we present the pricing negotiation based on reinforcement learning model. A negotiated-price setting technique based on agent learning is introduced, and...
This article develops a more comprehensive understanding of data mining by examining the application of this technology in the marketplace. In addition to exploring the technological issues that arise from the use of these applications, we address some of the social concerns that are too often ignored. As more firms shift more of their business activities to the Web, increasingly more information...
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