In traditional commerce, brokers act as middlemen between customers and providers, aggregating, repackaging and adding value to products, services or information. In the broadest ...
The Mobile Agent (MA) paradigm seems able to support effectively distributed applications in open and heterogeneous environments, and application areas such as ecommerce appear to...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montana...
This paper examines a generalization of a two-stage game common on eBay: an ascending-price auction followed by price discrimination (the second chance offer). High bids in the a...
In this paper, we study methods for improving the utility and privacy of reputation scores for online auctions, such as used in eBay, so as to reduce the effectiveness of feedbac...
The number of location-aware mobile devices has been rising for several years. As this trend continues, these devices may be able to use their location information to provide inte...