In this demo we focus on cross-modal (visual and textual) e-commerce search within the fashion domain. Particularly, we demonstrate two tasks: 1) given a query image (without any accompanying text), we retrieve textual descriptions that correspond to the visual attributes in the visual query; and 2) given a textual query that may express an interest in specific visual characteristics, we retrie...

The proliferation of both online and bricks and mortar outlet stores underscores the observation that secondary markets are readily accessible to retailers of short−life−cycle products. These secondary markets provide recourse channels for retailers to sell excess inventory of out of favor items at reduced prices when overstocking occurs in a primary market. We study the problem of determining ...

Keywords, JEL Codes THE RAISON D'ÊTRE FOR SCIENCE, AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN particular, is to understand and explain observable phenomena. Yet, in an article in the American Economic Review, Wolfgang Pesendorfer (1995) develops a model of the design cycle of fashion goods that shows little regard for data, observational experience, history, intuition, or semantic integrity. These cornerstones o...