Shopbot 2.0: Integrating recommendations and promotions with comparison shopping

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-69

  Garfinkel, Robert ^a   Gopal, Ram ^a   Pathak, Bhavik ^b   Yin, Fang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

Author keywords

Online retailing; Recommender systems; Sales promotions; Shopbots

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

COMPARISON SHOPPING; CURRENT GENERATIONS; ONLINE RETAILING; PRICE SENSITIVES; PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS; PURCHASE PRICES; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SALES PROMOTIONS; SEARCH COSTS; SHOPBOT; SHOPBOTS;

SALES;

EID: 56049085812     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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