Auction Advisor: An agent-based online-auction decision support system

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 449-471

  Gregg, Dawn G ^a   Walczak, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous agent; Data analysis; Decision support; Information retrieval; Online auction

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENT; ONLINE AUCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MARKETING; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 29144525963     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2004.07.007     Document Type: Article

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