Crowding is largely associated with negative consumer outcomes such as shopping irritation and lower levels of shopping pleasure, less positive attitudes and less satisfaction toward the crowded store or mall. While previous research demonstrated the alleviating effect of slow music and greenery on this negative impact of high perceived crowding, this study examines the potential of a relaxing ...

Comparison shopping is a merchant brokering process that provides the information about a specific product from several distributed shopping mall sites. The implementation of a comparison shopping agent is a challenging issue mainly because different on-line shopping malls employ their own way of organizing interface components, processing user queries, and displaying search results on the brow...

In this article, we consider market places as social places. Social places provide social presence and interaction. Virtual market places often lack in these social factors. Community support tools, such as chat systems or newsgroups try to fill this gap. We argue that a new architecture is needed that brings together customers with common interests. We propose a combined system called GAMA-Mal...

The underground shopping mall has the constructional problem of the fire evacuation. Also, the people sometimes lose their direction and information of current time in the mall. If the emergencies such as terrorist explosions or gas explosions are happened, they have to go out soon. Under such circumstances, inside of the mall has high risk for life. In this research, the authors propose a way ...

Our literature review revealed that several applications successfully simulate certain kinds of human behaviors in spatial environments, but they have some limitations related to the ‘believability’ and the ‘usability’ of the simulations. This paper aims to present a set of requirements for multiagent-based simulations in terms of ‘believability’ and ‘usability’. It also presents how these requ...

In this paper, we develop a new model to describe a dynamic revenue-sharing problem between an online shopping mall and a store in an E-commerce market. We formulate the revenue-sharing problem as a dynamic principal-agent problem, which is then transformed to a risk-sensitive stochastic optimal control problem where the objective of the risk-averse shopping mall is to find a risk-sensitive rev...

This research examines the effects of using 3D virtual shopping malls and shows the user interaction and experience in this type of virtual environments. Technology developments and the use of the Internet made users to expect more services, which help to improve the user's life. Using a 3D virtual environment and adding a shopping idea to it is considered as very interesting, especially if it ...