Forming Buyer Coalitions with Bundles of Items
KES-AMSTA '09 Proceedings of the Third KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
Towards a Customizable Platform for Simulation of Group Buying Markets
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
A new pooled buying method based on risk management
IEA/AIE'07 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Industrial, engineering, and other applications of applied intelligent systems
Buyer coalitions with bundles of items by using genetic algorithm
ICIC'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging intelligent computing technology and applications
Buyer coalitions on JADE platform
KES'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part I
Forming buyer coalition scheme with connection of a coalition leader
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Information Systems Frontiers
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In electronic marketplaces, group buyings are seen as an effective form of electronic commerce and a promising field for applying agent technologies. We study decision support systems for buyers in group buying. In group buying, when buyers cooperate with each other, a seller can discount the price of a good. In many existing group buying sites, some sellers deal in the same sort goods or their imitations. Buyers form coalitions for each item on sale. Buyers cannot always purchase goods at a lower price, because buyersý sub-groups are distributed. Buyers need to search hard to find the goods they can purchase. In this paper, we propose a group buying marketplace on the Internet. In our marketplace, buyers can purchase goods at a lower price by forming coalitions. Our system can provide a service that buyers are integrated based on buyersý multi-attribute preferences (utilities). Our system supports buyersý decision making by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. We propose three methods for group integration. First, buyers trades on simple group buying. Second, all buyers are integrated. Third, some buyers are integrated. Advantages of our market can be described that buyersý multi-attribute utilities are reflected effectively in group integration and buyers can purchase goods at a lower price. Buyersý payments are decided based on their degree of compromise. A successful seller can sell goods in their stock.