Unsolicited Commercial Email
The growth of unsolicited commercial email imposes increasing costs on organizations and causes considerable aggravation on the part of email recipients. Regulation and various economic and technical means are in the works – all aimed at bringing down the flood of unwanted commercial email. This project contributes to our understanding of the phenomenon of spam.
Principal Investigators
Robert K. Plice, Assistant Professor of Information and Decision Systems, College of Business Administration, San Diego State University
Nigel P. Melville, Assistant Professor of Information Systems. Operations, Information, and Strategic Management Department, Carroll School of Management, Boston College
Oleg V. Pavlov, Associate Professor of Economics and System Dynamics, WPI
Robert D. Maynard, Vice President of Network Operations & Co-Founder, Ojai.net
Aaron Stevens, Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Boston University
Corporate Partner
Publications
Plice, Robert K., O. Pavlov, N. Melville, "An information economic model of the spam industry." Under review.
Melville, Nigel, A. Stevens, R. Plice, O. Pavlov, "Unsolicited commercial e-mail: Shedding light on a gray industry" Under review.
Pavlov, O. V., N. Melville and R. Plice. "Mitigating the Tragedy of the Digital Commons: The Problem of Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail." Download the working paper (316KB PDF file), (2005).
Presentations
"SPAM talk." Worcester Polytechnic Institute. A talk sponsored by the WPI System Dynamics Club. February 16, 2005.
"Solving the SPAM Problem: An Information-Economics Approach." The Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) at Univeristy of California, Irvine. August 12, 2004. See photographs of this talk.
"Managing the Online Commons: Tragedy Visited, Tragedy Redeemed?" OISM Research Colloquium. Wallace E. Carroll School of Management. Boston College. May 11, 2004.
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