Product Marketplace

Collaborative Product Representation for Emergent Electronic Marketplace

A B2B e-marketplace is emergent with product representation requirements in continuous changes. To capture the emergence, this paper proposes a novel collaborative product representation approach that collaboratively generates new product representations in real-time both at the sides of sellers/buyers and e-marketplace providers. The approach employs a well-defined product representation const...

Marketplace or Reseller? Marketplace or Reseller? *

Intermediaries can choose between functioning as a marketplace (on which suppliers sell their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a choice between whether control rights over a non-contractible decision variable (the level of marketing activities) are better held by suppliers (the marketplace-mode) or by...

Dynamic Construction of Product Taxonomy Hierarchies for Assisted Shopping in the Electronic Marketplace

The electronic marketplace is a virtual trading environment over telecommunications networks, which replicates and can even improve functions of traditional physical trading markets. Based on a previously addressed method of taxonomy-hierarchy search, we propose a mechanism for electronic shopping supports. Instead of searching a fixed product taxonomy hierarchy, given search conditions, the pr...

The Marketplace of Ideas

The ILS Marketplace

In 2002, libraries spent more than $530 million on library systems and related services. Among academic, public and research libraries, more than 800 either migrated to a new integrated library system (ILS) or significantly upgraded their existing one.1 (These figures include the major ILS vendors in these markets: Dynix, Endeavor Information Systems, Ex Libris, Innovative Interfaces, Sirsi, TL...