Comparison shopping is a merchant brokering process that provides the information about a specific product from several distributed shopping mall sites. The implementation of a comparison shopping agent is a challenging issue mainly because different on-line shopping malls employ their own way of organizing interface components, processing user queries, and displaying search results on the brow...

How to bid on a Google shopping account (set of shopping campaigns) with query-level matching like in Google Adwords.

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Our intelligent shopping assistant, Ma$$ive, is a web application for mobile phones that aims to help users with their everyday grocery shopping by offering features such as natural language shopping lists, product recommendations, special offers, recipes and in-shop navigation. This short paper briefly describes the current and planned features of Ma$$ive.

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An exploratory study was conducted to investigate consumer adoption of online purchase using a survey data set. Based upon the theory of innovation and self-efficacy theory, risk aversion, online proficiency, shopping convenience, and product choice variety were proposed to influence consumer intention to shop online, which, in turn, affects online purchases. Results of regression analyses reve...

An automated shopping framework which employs migrating agents as a means to implement today’s practices of online shopping is introduced. The system encompasses a new business market architecture which provides support for retailer agents and migrating shopper agents, with agent communication adhering to IEEE-FIPA specifications. The proposed system focuses on shopping input and protoco...

In this position paper we attempt to explore some of the possible effects on the consumer experience due to the introduction of ubiquitous computing systems in retail. We argue that ubicomp technologies may potentially transform the role of particular activities in fundamental ways. Our starting point is a recent study on consumer behavior carried out during the trials of a prototype ubiquitous...

IN:SHOP uses the blue-c 3D video technology to implement distributed shopping in a shared virtual world. IN:SHOP combines traditional shopping and marketing structures with 3D computer graphics, telepresence, spatially immersive displays, and internet shopping paradigms to create a flexible and adaptable commercial environment. The application is an enhancement of the traditional, physical shop...

During the 1980s, the oversupply of retail space has lowered rents, raised vacancies, and damaged the integrity of financial institutions as developers and other borrowers have been forced into default. This paper explores the propensity of developers to create shopping center space. The research draws on the macroeconomic investment literature to formulate a model of shopping center investment...