An empirical evaluation on the relationship between final auction price and shilling activity in online auctions

SEKE 2010 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 286-291

  Dong, Fei ^a   Shatz, Sol M ^a   Xu, Haiping ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; MEMORY STORAGE; ONLINE AUCTIONS;

COSTS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FORMAL LOGIC; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79952426677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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