Comparison-shopping services and agent designs

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Wan, Yun, 1974-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Consumer education.; Shopping > Computer network resources.; Intelligent agents (Computer software); Agent designs; Comparision-shopping; Durability comparison; Efficiency of search patterns; Online environments; Price comparison; Product complexity; Search patterns in electronic market; Shopbots; Shopping behavior; Small online vendors
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This book provides a collection of comprehensive research articles on the rising demand for more informative consumer services from e-commerce and agent technology researchers, academicians, and practitioners with an overview and references to the latest advancements in the field.

Table of Contents:

• Comparison-Shopping Services and Agent Design: An Overview / Yun Wan
• The Next Generation of Shopbots: Semantic Interoperability and Personalization / Maria Fasli
• A Mediation Architecture for Global Comparison Services / Hongwei Zhu, Stuart E. Madnick
• The Efficiency of Different Search Patterns in Electronic Market / Theresa Lauraeus-Niinivaara, etc.
• Price, Product Complexity, and Durability in Comparison Shopping / Makoto Nakayama, Norma Sutcliffe
• Evaluation of Fuzzy Models to Support Online-Trust Assessment / Fahim Akhter, Zakaria Maamar
• Comparison-Shopping Channel Selection by Small Online Vendors: An Exploratory Study / Yun Wan, Han Hu
• Comparison Shopping Behaviour in Online Environments: The Case of Spanish E-Shoppers / Carla Ruiz Mafé, Silvia Sanz Blas
• Service Features, Customer Convenience, and Shopping Intention in the Context of Mobile Commerce/ Wen-Jang (Kenny)
• How Good is Your Shopping Agent? Users' Perception Regarding Shopping Agents' Service Quality / Călin Gurău
• Multi-Channel Retailing and Customer Satisfaction / Patricia T. Warrington, Adam Hagen, Richard Feinberg
• Evolution of Web-Based Shopping Systems: Characteristics and Strategies / Changsu Kim, etc.
• Exogenous and Endogenous Antecedents of Online Shopping in a Multichannel Environment: Evidence from a Catalog Retailer in the German-Speaking World / Maria Madlberger.
• Examining Online Purchase Intentions in B2C E-Commerce: Testing an Integrated Model / C. Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jha
• An Exploratory Study of Consumer Adoption of Online Shopping: Mediating Effect of Online Purchase Intention / Songpol Kulviwat, Ramendra Thakur, Chiquan Guo
• Can Web Seals Work Wonders for Small E-Vendors in the Online Trading Environment? A Theoretical Approach / Xiaorui Hu, Yuhong Wu
• Glossary
• Compilation of references.