• 한국전자거래학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자거래학회 2005년도 e-Biz World Conference 2005
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• pp.130-134
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• 2005

This research describes the comparison broker's role and its effectiveness measurement using a developed logical framework of comparison shopping service. And verifies that seller-led comparison challenge method provide comparison information of products to buyers more efficiently. In electronic commerce, buyer's satisfaction of purchase (S) can be defined as an interactive function between seller's competitiveness vector (P) of products that supplied to the market, and buyer's informed level vector (B) of products that is known from a lot of sources. Then the buyer's informed level can be changed through the information analysis among products by transformation process using comparison matrix (C). So the role of comparison shopping is to construct a comparison matrix and to serve it to the buyers, and to change the buyer's informed level. The changed informed level influences a buyer's satisfaction, that improved satisfaction of purchase is defined as the effectiveness of comparison shopping. As a perfect provision and usage of comparison matrix is impossible cause of cognitive limit, the most efficient method for improving the comparison effectiveness is the comparison challenge that detects the comparison elements of the largest buyer's information efficiency, and then to be compared between elementary products selectively. This research verifies the substantial superiority of comparison challenge through television market data experiments.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.84-91
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• 2005

Recently comparison-shopping agent systems are promising to support purchase of buyers in online-shopping environment. This paper proposes a comparison-shopping agent system considered easy access and buyer's preference. Easy access is achieved by minimizing questions to buyer. Buyer's preference is considered by using pairwise comparison of products attributes. Procedure of the proposed system is explained with a case of notebook. Finally a prototype has been implemented.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.41-61
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• 2011

In order to buy products through the Internet, consumers dissipate much time and efforts in collecting and comparing product information from various online shopping malls. Consumers can save their efforts by using price comparison sites, but there are some shortcomings in comparison shopping. Firstly, comparison sites do not show the lowest price of some products that are selling in shopping malls. Secondly, the product information provided by comparison sites is sometimes wrong. Thirdly, there are too many results. In order to overcome the shortcomings, we suggested a comparison shopping system based on RSS by using ontology matching. We used the current RSS standard for syntactic interoperability instead of suggesting new standards. Moreover, we used ontology matching for semantic interoperability to compare product information with different ontologies. The suggested ontology matching consists of three steps. The first step is finding exact sense from WordNet for a given product category, and the second step is searching for matching product category candidates from the products of RSS feeds. The final step is calculating similarities of the candidates with the target product category. From the experiments, we could get better recall rates that are suitable for e-commerce environments and the results show that our system is effective in product comparison.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.61-70
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• 2002

There are a lot of shopping malls in Internet and most of consumers want to buy good goods in cheap price through the shopping malls. To support them, many sites for price comparison are constructed. But man or woman search many shopping malls and insert their price informations into database that the price comparison sites own. To overcome this disadvantage, virtual shopping malls are builded. These virtual shopping malls are connected and cooperated a lot of affiliated existing shopping malls for the cheapest price information. But, these virtual shopping mall are connected to those existing shopping malls in synchronous. So If they are connected to many existing shopping malls, we have to wait long time because of searching for many existing shopping malls. In this paper, we designed and implemented a virtual shopping mall that connect to many existing shopping malls in asynchronous. For a asynchronous communication between this virtual shopping mall and many existing shopping malls, we used JMS (Java Message Service) that is a standard Java API for MOM (Message-Oriented Middleware).

• 지능정보연구
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2005

쇼핑몰들의 상품 정보를 효과적으로 비교할 수 있는 비교 쇼핑(comparison shopping) 시스템에서 사용자가 찾고자하는 상품에 대한 정확한 지식이 없이 검색할 경우, 불필요한 검색 결과로 인해 시스템의 효용성을 떨어지고, 사용자는 많은 시간을 소비하게 된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 시맨틱 웹 기반의 이미지 검색을 이용한 비교 쇼핑 시스템(Comparison Shopping Systems using Image Retrieval based on Semantic Web)을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템에서는 각 쇼핑몰들의 상품 이미지들을 온톨로지(Ontology) 기반으로 주석(annotation)처리한 후, 주석처리 된 이미지들을 통해 쇼핑몰을 구축하게 된다. 사용자는 이렇게 생성된 쇼핑몰에서 복잡한 키워드 검색을 이미지 검색으로 대체하여, 자신의 요구사항을 반영하고, 보다 정확한 검색을 할 수 있게 된다. 제안된 시스템의 성능평가를 위해 기존의 키워드 검색 기반 시스템과 단순 시맨틱 웹 기반의 비교 쇼핑 시스템의 성능을 비교 평가하였다. 그 결과, 시맨틱 웹 기반의 이미지 검색을 이용한 비교쇼핑 시스템이 키워드 검색기반과 시맨틱 웹 기반의 비교 쇼핑 시스템보다 평균적으로 50%, 20% 향상된 성능을 보였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.291-301
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• 2011

본 연구는 비교구매의 효과성 측정을 위한 모형을 제시하고 이를 통해 비교구매의 역할과 그 효과성을 설명한다. 또한 판매자 주도형 비교도전이 보다 효율적인 비교구매 정보의 제공 방법임을 증명한다. 구매자의 구매만족도(S)는 판매자의 제품경쟁력 벡터(P)와 구매자의 제품정보 인지수준 벡터(B)간의 상호작용으로 정의할 수 있으며, 구매자의 제품정보 인지수준은 제품 정보 분석을 통한 제품 간의 비교행렬(C)에 의해 변화된다. 비교구매 효과성은 비교 전과 후의 구매만족도의 변화량으로 측정되며, 비교구매의 역할은 비교행렬을 제공해 구매자의 제품정보 인지수준을 변화시키는 것이다. 보다 효율적인 방법은 판매자가 비교행렬의 구성요소 중에서 비교 효과성이 큰 경쟁 제품들에 능동적으로 비교하도록 하는 비교도전방법이다. 예제실험을 통해 일반적인 비교구매와 비교도전 전략이 모두 효과성 향상을 보였으며, 상대적으로 비교도전을 사용하는 비교구매 활용전략이 더 큰 효과성 향상을 보임을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.61-70
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• 2020

As mobile device usage time increases thanks to the development of information and communication alongside the increase in the spread of smartphones, mobile shopping has become a common trend. While mobile shopping has the advantage of saving both time and money, it may also result in dissatisfaction with product differences after purchase. For online clothing shopping malls, in particular, if the size does not match after purchase, it is difficult for customers to return or exchange the goods. To address this problem, some mobile apparel shipping malls offer a virtual fitting service and a size comparison function; however, the number of such malls remains low. In this paper, a usability evaluation was performed on a mobile apparel shopping mall that provides a size comparison function. The three apps selected for evaluation have different size input methods, and a slightly different method of providing results after comparing the user's dimensions with the dimensions of the clothes to be purchased. In this paper, the evaluators were asked to select clothes at the shopping mall and perform the task of deciding the size of the clothes to be purchased through their own measurements and comparison while also evaluating the effectiveness, meaning, and satisfaction of the apps. Based on the analysis of the results, this paper aims to produce an improvement plan and help design the size comparison UI (User Interface) in the future.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.185-199
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• 2005

With the growth of internet shopping malls, there is increasing interest in comparison shopping mall. However most comparison sites compare only book prices by collecting simple XML data and do not provide .the exact comparison Including precise shipping costs. Shipping costs vary depending on each customer's address, the delivery method, and the category of selected goods, so rule based system is required in order to calculate exact shipping costs. Therefore, we designed and implemented comparison shopping mall which compares not only book prices but also shipping costs using rule based inference. By adopting the extensible Rule Markup language (XRML) approach, we proposed the methodology of extracting delivery rules from Web pages of each shopping mall. The XRML approach can facilitate nearly automatic rule extraction from Web pages and consistency maintenance between Web pages and rule base. We developed a ConsiderD system which applies our rule acquisition methodology based on XRML. The objective of the ConsiderD system is to compare the exact total cost of books including the delivery cost over Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and Powells.com. With this prototype, we conducted an experiment to show the potential of automatic rule acquisition from Web pages and illustrate the effect of delivery cost.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2012

It is well known that internet shoppers are very sensitive to sale prices. They visit the various shopping malls and collect the product information including purchase conditions for goods purchase decision-making. Recently the necessity of information support is increasing because of increase of information amount which is necessary and complexity of goods purchase decision-making process. The comparison shopping agent systems have provided price comparison information which is collected from various shopping malls to satisfy internet shoppers information craving. But the frequent price change caused by keen price competition is becoming the primary reason of information quality decline among price comparison sites. RSS which is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated is applied even in on-line shopping malls. This paper develops a RSS product information collection system to get real-time product information. The proposed product information system consists of (1) web crawler module for searching RSS feed shopping malls automatically, (2) RSS reader module for parsing product information from RSS feed file, (3) product DB and (4) product searching module. Performance of the proposed system is higher than the comparison shopping agent systems when it is defined with the volume of collecting product information per unit time.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.57-71
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• 1998

In this paper, we describe the approaches of shopping agents and directory services for online comparison shopping on the web, and propose an information indexing and retrieval system, named InfoEye, with a new method for automatic extraction of product information. The developed method is based on the knowledge about presentation of the product information on the Web. The method from the knowledge about presentation of the product information is derived from both the point that online stores display their products to customers in easy-to-browse ways and heuristics made of analyses of product information look-and-feel of domestic online stores. In indexing process, the method is applied to product information extraction from Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents collected by a mirroring robot from online stores. We have made InfoEye to a readily usable stage and transferred the technology to Webnara commercial shopping engine. The proposed system is a cutting-edge solution to help customers as a shopping expert by providing information about the reasonable price of a product from dozens of online stores, saving customers shopping time, giving information about new products, and comparing quality factors of products in a same category.