Intelligent purchasing: How artificial intelligence can redefine the purchasing function

Artificial Intelligent Advisory System for PC Purchasing

The relevance of this paper in today’s ICT driven society is to ensure that PC buyers are assisted on decision making in PC purchasing. Development of an artificial intelligence advisory system (AIAS) that uses artificial neural network (ANN) as its knowledge base appears to be a promising method for offering expert advise to intended PC users such as schools, organizations, banks and the amate...

Purchasing evidence: the corollary of evidence-based purchasing.

The National Health Service (NHS) market led to problems in funding research and development (R&D). The current policy is to resolve these by funding R&D through a national levy on purchasers. The policy does not, however, address the underlying problem that evidence produced by R&D is largely irrelevant to purchasers. The consequences of this policy are likely to be that purchasing will have l...

How Technology-Purchasing Decisions Are Really Made Understanding How Influence Networks Affect the Success of Major Technology-Purchasing Decisions

Purchasing While Black: How Courts Condone Discrimination in the Marketplace

Pain at the Pump: How Gasoline Prices Affect Automobile Purchasing∗

In this paper we make use of detailed, transaction-level data on automobile purchases and monthly, ZIP-code level data on retail gasoline prices to investigate the effect of fuel prices on four aspects of automobile purchasing in the U.S.: market shares, new car prices, trade-in utilization, and new car inventories. We find statistically and economically significant effects in all four aspects,...