Assessing the benefits of group-buying-based combinatorial reverse auctions

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 407-419

  Hsieh, Fu Shiung ^a   Lin, Jim Bon ^a  

^a CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Combinatorial reverse auctions; Group buying; Integer programming; Procurement

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; GROUP-BUYING; OVERALL COSTS; PROCUREMENT; REVERSE AUCTION; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; SALES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 84865226081     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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