TY - JOUR
T1 - A quantitative foundation for defining and manipulating deals to facilitate automated e-commerce
AU - Golany, Boaz
AU - Shmueli, Oded
N1 - Funding Information:
O. Shmueli’s work is partially supported by the Fund for the Promotion of Research at the Technion.
PY - 2007/12
Y1 - 2007/12
N2 - We propose a goal programming framework that aims at automating e-commerce transactions. This framework consists of three basic layers: deal definition - defining the deal's parameters and associated constraints (e.g., item, price, delivery dates); deal manipulation - a collection of procedures for shaping deals to attain desired goals (e.g., earliest delivery and minimum price) and an applications layer that employs these procedures within some negotiations settings (e.g., an auction-related application presents a "better offer" while bidding on a contract). Our proposed foundation is rich enough to support a wide array of applications ranging from 1-1 and 1-n negotiations (auctions) to deal valuation and deal splitting. Whereas the techniques are appropriate to a multitude of settings, we shall mainly present them in the context of business-to-business (B2B) commerce where we see the greatest short term benefits.
AB - We propose a goal programming framework that aims at automating e-commerce transactions. This framework consists of three basic layers: deal definition - defining the deal's parameters and associated constraints (e.g., item, price, delivery dates); deal manipulation - a collection of procedures for shaping deals to attain desired goals (e.g., earliest delivery and minimum price) and an applications layer that employs these procedures within some negotiations settings (e.g., an auction-related application presents a "better offer" while bidding on a contract). Our proposed foundation is rich enough to support a wide array of applications ranging from 1-1 and 1-n negotiations (auctions) to deal valuation and deal splitting. Whereas the techniques are appropriate to a multitude of settings, we shall mainly present them in the context of business-to-business (B2B) commerce where we see the greatest short term benefits.
KW - Automated e-commerce
KW - Automated negotiations
KW - Deal manipulation
KW - Goal programming
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=36248973164&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10660-007-9010-9
DO - 10.1007/s10660-007-9010-9
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AN - SCOPUS:36248973164
SN - 1389-5753
VL - 7
SP - 341
EP - 365
JO - Electronic Commerce Research
JF - Electronic Commerce Research
IS - 3-4
ER -