Improving comparison shopping agents’ competence through selective price disclosure
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Highlights：
• A new approach for increasing the attractiveness of comparison shopping agents.
• The approach, selective price-disclosure, affects the buyer’s decision-making.
• Two methods for selective price-disclosure for fully-rational agents are given.
• The effectiveness and efficiency of the methods are demonstrated using real data.
• A third method is experimentally shown to be highly effective with people.
摘要
•A new approach for increasing the attractiveness of comparison shopping agents.•The approach, selective price-disclosure, affects the buyer’s decision-making.•Two methods for selective price-disclosure for fully-rational agents are given.•The effectiveness and efficiency of the methods are demonstrated using real data.•A third method is experimentally shown to be highly effective with people.
论文关键词：E-commerce,Comparison shopping agents,Information disclosure,Belief adjustment,Experimentation
论文评审过程：Received 24 July 2014, Revised 9 June 2015, Accepted 10 August 2015, Available online 28 August 2015, Version of Record 7 December 2015.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2015.08.006
