Among the various means that have been advanced for handling uncertainty in expert systems, certainty factor (CF) approaches have been widely adopted in both individual expert system applications and shells for building such systems. Nevertheless, CF approaches have been challenged on analytical...

One essential requirement for the development and vitality of a discipline is a network of channels for knowledge dissemination. These channels, such as scholarly journals, furnish not only a means for knowledge sharing, but also for knowledge generation by the discipline's community of...

The unprecedented easiness of exchanging information among consumers on the internet could add another dimension to the firms' competition against each other. In this paper, we introduce consumers' learning from each other about the degree of product differentiation into a Hotelling duopoly...

Static theories of firms often fail to explain the tendency toward standardization and de facto monopolization by software and digital product firms. This article examines arguments favored by new economics of information: no market power, increasing returns, and network effects. We evaluate...

The proliferation of new information technologies throughout the world has raised some important questions for policymakers as to how developing countries can benefit from their diffusion. This important volume compares the advantages and disadvantages of the IT revolution through detailed...

The proliferation of new information technologies throughout the world has raised some important questions for policymakers as to how developing countries can benefit from their diffusion. This important volume compares the advantages and disadvantages of the IT revolution through detailed...