Cooperation in group-buying auctions

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chen, Jian ^a   Chen, Xilong ^a   Kauffman, Robert J ^b   Song, Xiping ^a  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bidding ring; Bidding strategies; Cooperation; E markets; Group decisions; Group buying auctions; Information sharing; Market mechanisms

Indexed keywords

BIDDING RING; BIDDING STRATEGIES; GROUP DECISIONS; GROUP-BUYING AUCTIONS; INFORMATION SHARING; MARKET MECHANISMS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SALES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

PURCHASING;

EID: 33749628154     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.99     Document Type: Conference Paper

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