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- research-articleOctober 2013
Introducing spatial context in comparative pricing and product search
- Maxwell Guimarães de Oliveira,
- André Luiz Firmino Alves,
- Daniel Farias Batista Leite,
- Júlio Henrique Rocha,
- José Amilton Moura Acioli Filho,
- Cláudio de Souza Baptista
MEDES '13: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystemsPages 127–134https://doi.org/10.1145/2536146.2536158Price survey services assist consumers interested in purchasing a new product online. Nevertheless, even being efficient in consulting the suppliers and returning up-to-date information about price and availability of products, current services still ...
- articleApril 2012
Comparison shopping agents and online price dispersion: a search cost based explanation
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research (JTAER), Volume 7, Issue 1Pages 64–76https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-18762012000100006Search costs and consumer heterogeneity are two important explanations for the price dispersion in the brick and mortar (B&M) markets. Comparison shopping agents (CSAs) provide a single click decision support for consumers' purchasing related decision ...
- research-articleMay 2007
Scaling-up shopbots: a dynamic allocation-based approach
AAMAS '07: Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systemsArticle No.: 256, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/1329125.1329435In this paper we consider the problem of eCommerce comparison shopping agents (shopbots) that are limited by capacity constraints. In light of the phenomenal increase both in demand for price comparison services over the internet and in the number of ...
- research-articleNovember 2006
Shopbots: A Syntactic Present, A Semantic Future
IEEE Internet Computing (IEEECS_INTERNET), Volume 10, Issue 6Pages 69–75https://doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2006.134Despite high expectations, shopbots have yet to significantly facilitate a richer, more satisfying online shopping experience for users. By taking advantage of Semantic Web and Web services technologies, however, researchers can overcome current ...
- articleSeptember 2002
Shopbot Economics
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (KLU-AGNT), Volume 5, Issue 3Pages 255–287https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015552306471Shopbots are Internet agents that automatically search for information pertaining to the price and quality of goods and services. As the prevalence and usage of shopbots continues to increase, one might expect the resultant reduction in search costs to ...
- ArticleJuly 2002
How valuable are shopbots?
AAMAS '02: Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3Pages 1009–1016https://doi.org/10.1145/545056.545060The price information that shopbots provide to buyers is clearly valuable, as it enables them to make a better informed choice of product and vendor. We quantify the value of this price information to the buyer in terms of the price dispersion and the ...
- ArticleOctober 2001
Pricing price information in e-commerce
EC '01: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic CommercePages 260–263https://doi.org/10.1145/501158.501192Shopbots and Internet sites that help users locate the best price for a product are changing the way people shop by providing valuable information on goods and services. This paper presents a first attempt to measure the value of one piece of ...
- ArticleMay 2001
Probabilistic pricebots
AGENTS '01: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agentsPages 560–567https://doi.org/10.1145/375735.376447Past research has been concerned with the potential of embedding deterministic pricing algorithms into {\em pricebots}: software agents used by on-line sellers to automatically price Internet goods. In this work, probabilistic pricing algorithms based ...