We propose an agent-based grocery shopping system, which automates grocery shopping process. Agents gather grocery information from several store server agents and compare it with user’s preferences of groceries and stores. The agents could adapt to user’s up-to-date preferences by learning from his/her evaluation of previous shopping results. The proposed agent-based grocery shopping system is...

In this paper we present a simulation prototype of the customers’ shopping behavior in a mall using a knowledge-based multiagent geosimulation approach. The shopping behavior in a shopping mall is performed in a geographic environment (a shopping mall) and is influenced by several shopper’s characteristics (internal factors) and factors which are related to the shopping mall (external or situat...

The popularization and rapid development of the Internet has fostered the growth of online shopping leading it to become an important new channel for consumers to make purchases. However, the Internet users’ rate of satisfaction has declined since online shopping has become an important consumer option. In order to improve customer satisfaction and to enhance the shopping experience, it is very...

We use health insurance claims data from 63 large employers to estimate the extent of price shopping for nine common outpatient services in consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) compared to traditional health plans. The main measures of price-shopping include: (1) the total price paid on the claim, (2) the share of claims from low and high cost providers and (3) the savings from price shopping...

The aim of this research is to consider the possible effect of an emerging technology platform on the uptake of online shopping: interactive (digital) Television (iTV), which enables viewers to select a variety of viewing options, publicity materials, games, entertainment and more recently shopping. An augmented version of the original TAM is applied to this study. Two new constructs are consid...

One of the continuing issues in the management of information technologies is the difficulty of identifying significant factors that influences consumers to accept and make use of systems developed and implemented by others. Existing studies have employed the technology acceptance model (TAM) to address this issue and the model has now become one of the most widely used models in information te...

Motivations to engage in retail online shopping can include both utilitarian and hedonic shopping dimensions. To cater to these consumers, online retailers can create a cognitively and esthetically rich shopping environment, through sophisticated levels of interactive web utilities and features, offering not only utilitarian benefits and attributes but also providing hedonic benefits of enjoyme...

This article documents an e!ort to experimentally examine the e!ects of information characteristics of Web shopping sites on consumers' desire to approach the sites. A "eld experiment was conducted in which respondents visited shopping sites characterized by varying levels of information load. Two dimensions of information load, complexity and novelty were identi"ed and were found to have di!er...

The global online shopping market has exhibited consistent growth, exceeding an annual average growth rate of 10% from 2006 to 2010; however, the online shopping market in Taiwan demonstrated an astounding growth rate, surpassing 35% during the same period. In the current competitive and rapidly expanding market environment, shopping website providers must establish effective methods for measur...

Timing Constraints and the Allocation of Time: The Effects of Changing Shopping Hours Regulations in the Netherlands A 1996 change in shopping hours regulations in the Netherlands provides an opportunity to study the effects of timing constraints on total time spent in shopping, working, and other activities as well as the timing of these activities. We develop a simple structural model to make...