Optimal strategic pricing of reproducible consumer products
Management Science
Software piracy: an analysis of protection strategies
Management Science
Adaptation in natural and artificial systems
Adaptation in natural and artificial systems
Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity
Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity
Foresight-based pricing algorithms in agent economies
Decision Support Systems - Special issue on information and computational economics
Software pricing and copyright enforcement: private profit vis-a-vis social welfare
ICIS '99 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Information Systems
Agent-based interaction analysis of consumer behavior
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Pricing in Agent Economies Using Multi-Agent Q-Learning
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Industrial Pricing: Theory and Managerial Practice
Marketing Science
Information Goods Pricing and Copyright Enforcement: Welfare Analysis
Information Systems Research
Managing Digital Piracy: Pricing and Protection
Information Systems Research
Exploring bidding strategies for market-based scheduling
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: The fourth ACM conference on electronic commerce
Agent learning in supplier selection models
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Decision theory and game theory in agent design
Preventive and deterrent controls for software piracy
Journal of Management Information Systems
Information Systems Research
Economic Implications of Variable Technology Standards for Movie Piracy in a Global Context
Journal of Management Information Systems
Do online reviews matter? - An empirical investigation of panel data
Decision Support Systems
Visualization of multi-algorithm clustering for better economic decisions - The case of car pricing
Decision Support Systems
Pricing schemes for digital content with DRM mechanisms
Decision Support Systems
A business model for mobile commerce applications using multimedia messaging service
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Optimal software pricing in the presence of piracy and word-of-mouth effect
Decision Support Systems
Pricing information goods in distributed agent-based information filtering
OTM'11 Proceedings of the 2011th Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
The impacts of piracy and supply chain contracts on digital music channel performance
Decision Support Systems
Consumer Piracy Risk: Conceptualization and Measurement in Music Sharing
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
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Piracy of copyrighted information goods such as computer software, music recordings, and movies has received increased attention in the literature. Much of this research relied on mathematical modeling to analyze pricing policies, protection against piracy, and government policies. We use complex adaptive systems as an alternative methodology to analyze pricing decisions in an industry with products which can be pirated. This approach has been previously applied to pricing and can capture some aspects of the problem which are difficult to analyze using traditional mathematical modeling. The results indicate that advances in technology make a skimming strategy the least preferable approach for producers. Further, improvements in technology, more specifically data communications and the Internet, will erode the profitability of a skimming strategy. The analysis also indicates that complex adaptive systems may provide a useful method for analyzing problems in which interactions between participants in the systems, i.e. consumers, sellers, and regulating agencies, are important in determining the behavior of the system.