By through the agent, The market may save the reinvention costs of developing packages, solvers, billing systems and pricing systems. It is caused by economies of scale. The purpose of using Decision Technologies is to obtain insight into a decision space by perturbing a set of inputs and examining the sensitivity analysis. Therefore, the contract between consumers, agents and providers may be made in terms of period of using systems. When we consider those characteristics of decision technologies, several specific terms may be considered for developing the model of that market.
Agency theory provides a framework for such an analysis of contractual relationships.
Agency costs include transaction costs, moral hazard costs, and information costs etc. Jensen and Meckling modeled the agency costs that are composed of monitoring expenditures by principals, bonding expenditures by agent and residual loss. The residual loss is occurred when the agent faultily led the principal who has the same information and talent as the agent has. The agent of Decision Technologies market is engaged and monitored by consumers and providers. And contracts are drawn up, lawyers may be consulted, title is transferred and records have to be kept.