A policy framework for trading configurable goods and services in open electronic markets

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 162-173

  Lamparter, Steffen ^a   Ankolekar, Anupriya ^a   Studer, Rudi ^a   Oberle, Daniel ^b   Weinhardt, Christof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ontology; Policy; Utility theory

Indexed keywords

BUYERS AND SELLERS; CONFIGURABLE; CONFIGURABLE GOODS; DECLARATIVE DESCRIPTIONS; ELECTRONIC MARKET; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES; POLICY; POLICY FRAMEWORK; PRICING FUNCTION; PRICING POLICY; REPRESENTATION LANGUAGES; UTILITY THEORY; VARIOUS CONFIGURATION; WEB SERVICE SELECTION;

ONTOLOGY; SALES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 70450211214     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1151454.1151488     Document Type: Conference Paper

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