Comparison-Shopping Services and Agent Designs

Comparison-Shopping Services and Agent Designs

Yun Wan
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Release Date: April, 2009|Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 336
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-978-6
ISBN13: 9781599049786|ISBN10: 1599049783|EISBN13: 9781599049793
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Description:

Popular among online shoppers, comparison-shopping provides a new sales channel for small to medium enterprises to contend with brand name vendors.

Comparison-Shopping Services and Agent Designs provides a collection of comprehensive research articles on the rising demand for more informative consumer services. This Premier Reference Source provides e-commerce and agent technology researchers, academicians, and practitioners with a useful overview and references to the latest advancements in the field.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Agent designs
  • Comparison-shopping
  • Durability comparison
  • Efficiency of search patterns
  • Online Environments
  • Price comparison
  • Product complexity
  • Search patterns in electronic market
  • Shopbots
  • Shopping behavior
  • Small online vendors
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This book is to provides a cross-discipline summary of existing research on comparison-shopping, as well as online shopping in general. So researchers in their own disciplines like computer science, information system, marketing as well as psychology and economics could get inspirations from other disciplines and conduct more fruitful research in the future.

– Yun Wan, University of Houston, USA
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Yun Wan is a Professor of Computer Information Systems in the University of Houston - Victoria. His research interests include electronic commerce, text analytics, decision support systems, and enterprise systems development. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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