Group-buying websites are very popular in electronic commerce and online shopping nowadays. They have multiple slots to provide deals with significant discounts to their visitors every day. The current user traffic allocation mostly relies on human decisions. We study the problem of automatically allocating the user traffic of a group-buying website to different deals to maximize the total reve...

This paper provides an analysis of the consumer buying process and discusses its impacts and implications for web designer. The paper begins with a brief overview of the consumer buying process, extracts desirable characteristics for an e-commerce site, and evaluates a number of ecommerce sites for characteristics incorporation. The implications for software engineers are to analysis the decisi...

This paper explores buying versus renting as an investment decision for a prospective Australian first home buyer, by comparing the NPVs of buying and renting. An ex-post analysis for overlapping 10-year periods from 1983 to 2013 for Australia’s eight capital cities suggests that renting was favourable for the decade from 1983 in most capital cities and buying was favourable from the early 1990...

With the rise of otaku economy and WeChat mini-programs in post-epidemic era, community group buying has entered a new stage. Many Internet companies have spared no efforts to invest developing an attempt seize market traffic. When participating buying, head purchase is gradually employed by enterprises. By virtue research methods including cyber-ethnography in-depth interviews, this paper expl...

Researchers investigating various aspects of organizational buying behavior often have reported mixed, sometimes contradictory results. Recently, there have been attempts to consolidate work in this area [cf. Bunn, M.D. 1993. Taxonomy of buying decision approaches. Journal of Marketing; 57:38–56 (January); Johnston, W.J., Lewin, J.E. Organizational buying behavior: toward an integrative framewo...