Power to the buyer with group buying sites
E-business Advisor
A stable and efficient buyer coalition formation scheme for e-marketplaces
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
A coalition formation mechanism based on inter-agent trust relationships
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Using Inter-agent Trust Relationships for Efficient Coalition Formation
AI '02 Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
A Buyers Integration Support System in Group Buying
CEC '04 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology
A Volume Discount-Based Allocation Mechanism in Group Buying
DEEC '05 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce
Journal of Management Information Systems
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In commercial environments consumers with limited order size can aggregate their demand through a group buying process allowing them to form economies of scale. Currently researchers in the field of group buying have to develop specialized software themselves or customize a general purpose agent-based simulation platform. Both of these methods are time consuming and require the researcher to construct the necessary software infrastructure needed for group buying simulations before being able to conduct their experiments. In this paper we introduce a novel agent-based simulation platform, called GBSim, which has been customized for group buying environments.