Evaluation and optimization of the catalog search process of e-procurement platforms

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 44-56

  Döring, Sven ^a   Kießling, Werner ^a   Preisinger, Timotheus ^a   Fischer, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

E catalogs; E procurement; Preference search; Preference xpath; Search process costs

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

E-CATALOGS; E-PROCUREMENT; PREFERENCE SEARCH; PREFERENCE XPATH; SEARCH PROCESS COSTS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 31044438857     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2005.08.004     Document Type: Article

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