The Information Market: Its Basic Concepts and Its Challenges

This paper discusses the concept of information market. The authors of this paper have been involved in several aspects of information retrieval research. In continuing this research tradition we now take a wider perspective on this field and re-position it as a market where demand for information meets supply for information. The paper starts by exploring the notion of a market in general and is followed by a specialization of these considerations in the information market, where we will also position some of the existing work1 .

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: WISE
• Authors: Patrick van Bommel, Bas van Gils, Henderik Alex Proper, Mario van Vliet, Theo P. van der Weide
• Keywords: Information Market, Information Retrieval Research, Internet Technology, Paper, WISE 2005