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Price wars and niche discovery in an information economy

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Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce table of contents

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Pages: 95 - 106

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-58113-272-7

Authors

Christopher H. Brooks
Edmund H. Durfee	Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Rajarshi Das	Institute For Advanced Commerce, IBM Research, PO Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY

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SIGEcom: ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	Robert S. Gazzale , Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, Endogenous differentiation of information goods under uncertainty, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce, p.75-84, October 14-17, 2001, Tampa, Florida, USA
	Christopher H. Brooks , Edmund H. Durfee, Congregating and market formation, Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1, July 15-19, 2002, Bologna, Italy
	Jianhui Wu , Edmund H. Durfee, The Impact of Communication Costs and Limitations on Price Wars in an Information Economy, Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, p.1205-1212, July 19-23, 2004, New York, New York