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WELCOM 2001: Electronic Commerce pp 26–38Cite as

Building Comparison-Shopping Brokers on the Web

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Comparison-shopping brokers can create value to transactions between consumers and vendors by aggregating services and product information that were traditionally offered by separate vendors, thus reducing search costs and contributing for efficiency on Web electronic markets. Specifically in retail markets where the diversity of product data is greater, it is not always easy to find what a consumer is looking for on the Web. This paper presents an architecture for comparison-shopping brokers that provides precise information about products and vendors to consumers, retrieving this information in unstructured sources like the Web and heterogeneous business data on online stores. We also present and discuss a case study of this architecture in use, the WhereBuy broker, detailing its product comparison process.

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  1. Centro de Informática UFPE, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Caixa Postal 7851, 50732-540, Várzea Recife-PE, Brazil

    Simone C. dos Santos & Silvio R. L. Meira

  2. CESAR - Centro de Estudos e Sistemas Avançados do Recife, Caixa Postal 7115, 50780-350, Areias Recife-PE, Brazil

    Simone C. dos Santos, Sérgio Angelim & Silvio R. L. Meira

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  1. Darmstadt University of Technology, Wilhelminenstr.7, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Ludger Fiege  & Gero Mühl  & 

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    Uwe Wilhelm

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dos Santos, S.C., Angelim, S., Meira, S.R.L. (2001). Building Comparison-Shopping Brokers on the Web. In: Fiege, L., Mühl, G., Wilhelm, U. (eds) Electronic Commerce. WELCOM 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2232. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45598-1_5

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