| Sardine: An Agent-facilitated Airline Ticket Bidding System (2000) | |||||||||||||||||
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| This paper discusses the limitations of current on-line auction systems and presents our guidelines for more dynamic attribute-based bidding. Our prototype application for airline flight bidding demonstrates our vision for interfaces that facilitate negotiation between buyers and sellers. INTRODUCTION Despite the growth in the number of online auction sites, there is still a need for a more dynamic, personalized bidding experience. Existing bidding and auction sites overemphasize bid price as the sole parameter determining the match of a buyer and a seller. We believe that for dynamic pricing systems to truly benefit the buyer and seller, the negotiation interaction needs to extend further than a simplistic exchange of bid and ask prices [6]. On-line auction systems, such as eBay [1], Amazon Auctions [2], and Priceline's airline bidding system [3] violate several principles we believe are necessary for a bidding system to benefit both the buyer and the seller. These principles are: ... | |||||||||||||||||
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