and services. Abstract goods and services such as pictures, speech, and music--which have in the past been relatively awkward to deal with as analog data--have, through digital tec...
Abstract. Shopbots are agents that search the Internet for information pertaining to the price and quality of goods or services. With the advent of shopbots, a dramatic reduction i...
This paper describes a system that allows users who obtain a “wearable ID key” to personalize dynamically ubiquitous computers by simply touching them. We call the concept of ...
In this paper, we propose a new approach to automatically clustering e-commerce search engines (ESEs) on the Web such that ESEs in the same cluster sell similar products. This all...
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...