The strategic marketing response to deregulation is discussed, in particular to interstate banking, to the growing similarity between banks, thrift institutions and non‐banks and to the greater operational freedom implicit in technological change.

Examines the processes of cluster analysis and describes them using an example of benefit segmentation, and also discusses other applications suggesting new directions of research in related fields. Bases an example study with 200 early respondents to a survey into sixth formers' choice of...

This paper deals with artificial agents buying and selling products in a virtual market of goods that may be substituted for each other. On the demand side the market features a homogenous group of agents whose dynamics are determined by three different scenarios. The supply side, on the other...