One of our goals when building the University of Michigan Digital Library UMDL has been to prototype an architecture that can continually recon gure itself as users, contents, and ...
Edmund H. Durfee, Tracy Mullen, Sunju Park, Jos&ea...
How should a seller price his goods in a market where each buyer prefers a single good among his desired goods, and will buy the cheapest such good, as long as it is within his bud...
Companies in a variety of industries (e.g., airlines, hotels, theaters) often use last-minute sales to dispose of unsold capacity. Although this may generate incremental revenues ...
Kinshuk Jerath, Serguei Netessine, Senthil K. Veer...
Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. Although shopping agents provide convenience for consume...
Current mechanisms for evaluating the trustworthiness of an agent within an electronic marketplace depend either on using a history of interactions or on recommendations from othe...
Ronald Ashri, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Jordi Sabater...