Goodwill hunting: An economically efficient online feedback mechanism for environments with variable product quality

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2531, Issue , 2002, Pages 238-252

  Dellarocas, Chrysanthos ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FEEDBACK CONTROL;

MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS; ONLINE FEEDBACK; USED CARS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 28444482208     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36378-5_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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