A Pattern Language for Online Auctions Management
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Online auctions are gaining popularity as they provide an excellent means of selling goods. Their advantages include: reducing transaction costs, selling goods that are difficult to sell through the ordinary market channels, and increasing the circle of potential customers. This paper presents a pattern language for the Web auction application domain. The pattern language has ten analysis patterns that offer solutions to support all the basic functionalities of this domain. Its development was based on several existing Internet auction systems and its application can guide the developer during analysis of such systems.
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