An application of web-based data mining: Selling strategies for online auctions

Online Information Review

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 147-162

  Tu, Yanbin ^a  

^a ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auctions; Data collection; Selling methods

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WEB SERVICES;

AUCTIONS; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE (CART); DATA COLLECTION;

DATA MINING;

EID: 42549135909     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520810879791     Document Type: Article

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