A quantitative foundation for defining and manipulating deals to facilitate automated e-commerce

Boaz Golany, Oded Shmueli

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)341-365
Number of pages25
JournalElectronic Commerce Research
Volume7
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2007

Keywords

  • Automated e-commerce
  • Automated negotiations
  • Deal manipulation
  • Goal programming

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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