Evaluating the applicability of peer-designed agents for mechanism evaluation

A Elmalech, D Sarne - Web Intelligence and Agent Systems …, 2014 - content.iospress.com
In this paper we empirically investigate the feasibility of using peer-designed agents (PDAs)
instead of people for the purpose of mechanism evaluation. This approach has been …

Enhancing comparison shopping agents through ordering and gradual information disclosure

C Hajaj, N Hazon, D Sarne - Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2017 - Springer
The plethora of comparison shopping agents (CSAs) in today's markets enables buyers to
query more than a single CSA when shopping, thus expanding the list of sellers whose …

[PDF][PDF] A SURVEY OF THE COMPARISON SHOPPING AGENT-BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS.

B Pathak - Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, 2010 - ojs.jecr.org
The web-based comparison shopping agents (CSAs) or shopbots have emerged as
important business intermediaries that provide decision support to both the shoppers and …

Improving comparison shopping agents' competence through selective price disclosure

C Hajaj, N Hazon, D Sarne - Electronic Commerce Research and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The plethora of comparison shopping agents (CSAs) in today's markets enables buyers to
query more than a single CSA when shopping, and an inter-CSAs competition naturally …

Search more, disclose less

C Hajaj, N Hazon, D Sarne, A Elmalech - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2013 - ojs.aaai.org
The blooming of comparison shopping agents (CSAs) in recent years enables buyers in
today's markets to query more than a single CSA while shopping, thus substantially …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison shopping agents and online price dispersion: A search cost based explanation

BK Pathak - Journal of theoretical and applied electronic commerce …, 2012 - SciELO Chile
Search costs and consumer heterogeneity are two important explanations for the price
dispersion in the brick and mortar (B&M) markets. Comparison shopping agents (CSAs) …

[PDF][PDF] Strategic Free Information Disclosure for Search-Based Information Platforms.

S Alkoby, D Sarne, S Das - AAMAS, 2015 - academia.edu
We investigate information platforms that enable and support user search. Consider users
engaged in a sequential search process (eg for used cars or consumer goods in e …

Two-sided search with experts

Y Nahum, D Sarne, S Das, O Shehory - … of the 13th ACM Conference on …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we study distributed agent matching in environments characterized by
uncertain signals, costly exploration, and the presence of an information broker. Each agent …

Ordering effects and belief adjustment in the use of comparison shopping agents

C Hajaj, N Hazon, D Sarne - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2014 - ojs.aaai.org
The popularity of online shopping has contributed to the development of comparison
shopping agents (CSAs) aiming to facilitate buyers' ability to compare prices of online stores …

Personal Loans Comparison Websites in Saudi Arabia: Challenges and Proposed Solution

M Alfawzan, R Alturki - 2018 21st Saudi Computer Society …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Comparison-Shopping websites (CSWs) have emerged as important decision support tool
for buyers and sellers. For buyers, they offer the ability to compare their purchase …