Bidders on eBay have no dominant bidding strategy when faced with multiple auctions each offering an item of interest. As seen through an analysis of 1,956 auctions on eBay for a...
Existing reputation systems used by online auction houses do not address the concern of a buyer shopping for commodities—finding a good bargain. These systems do not provide in...
Shai Rubin, Mihai Christodorescu, Vinod Ganapathy,...
The newsvendor problem describes the dilemma of a newspaper salesman—how many papers should he purchase each day to resell, when he doesn’t know the demand? We develop approach...
Online auction sites have unique workloads and user behavior characteristics that do not exist in other e-commerce sites. Earlier studies by the authors identified i) significan...