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dc.contributor.authorMarkopoulos, Panos M.en
dc.contributor.authorKephart, J. O.en
dc.creatorMarkopoulos, Panos M.en
dc.creatorKephart, J. O.en
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-22T05:53:03Z
dc.date.available2019-04-22T05:53:03Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.identifier.urihttp://gnosis.library.ucy.ac.cy/handle/7/46349
dc.description.abstractThe 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 buyer's brand preferences, and consider scenarios in which the buyer pays a seller, a shopbot, or some other third party for price information. As an illustration, we compute the value of price information of well known retailers in online book markets, using data on price dispersion and brand preferences reported by Smith and Brynjolfsson, finding that information about a book's price can be about 6% to 10% as valuable as the book itself.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherAssociation for Computing Machineryen
dc.sourceProceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agentsen
dc.subjectInformation analysisen
dc.subjectMarketingen
dc.subjectWebsitesen
dc.subjectSalesen
dc.subjectShopbotsen
dc.subjectBranden
dc.subjectInformation servicesen
dc.subjectInformation valueen
dc.subjectMulti agent systemsen
dc.subjectPrice dispersionen
dc.subjectProduct developmenten
dc.subjectTelecommunication servicesen
dc.titleHow valuable are shopbots?en
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/545056.545060
dc.description.startingpage1009
dc.description.endingpage1016
dc.author.facultyΣχολή Οικονομικών Επιστημών και Διοίκησης / Faculty of Economics and Management
dc.author.departmentΤμήμα Διοίκησης Επιχειρήσεων και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης / Department of Business and Public Administration
dc.type.uhtypeConference Objecten


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