Browsing by Subject "Shopbots"

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      How valuable are shopbots? 

      Markopoulos, Panos M.; Kephart, J. O. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2002)
      The 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 ...
    • Article  

      Information markets for product attributes: A game theoretic, dual pricing mechanism 

      Markopoulos, Panos M.; Aron, Ravi; Ungar, Lyle H. (2010)
      We model the availability of information about product attributes in Internet-based markets, focusing on a phenomenon that we term as information deficit (availability of less than perfect information about product attributes) ...
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      Is online product information availability driven by quality or differentiation? 

      Markopoulos, Panos M.; Aron, Ravi; Ungar, Lyle H. (Affiliation: The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesCorrespondence Address: Markopoulos, P. M.The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United Statesemail: markopou@wharton.upenn.edu, 2005)
      We present a game theoretic model for the availability of product information in Internet markets, where buyers can search for multiple products in parallel. We use a multiple-circle variation of Salop's "unit circle" model ...
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      Pricing price information in E-commerce [Extended Abstract] 

      Markopoulos, Panos M.; Ungar, Lyle H. (Affiliation: Computer and Information Sci. Dept., University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesCorrespondence Address: Markopoulos, P.M.Computer and Information Sci. Dept., University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA, United Statesemail: markopou@unagi.cis.upenn.edu, 2001)
      Shopbots 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 ...