• DocumentCode
    3419598
  • Title

    Advice in electronic commerce

  • Author

    Tache, Florentina Loredana

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. Dunarea de Jos of Galati, Galati, Romania
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    July 29 2009-Aug. 1 2009
  • Firstpage
    111
  • Lastpage
    114
  • Abstract
    Globalization, development of services economy, all these oblige the companies to abandon the organization model focused on their internal problems in order to adjust to another way of logic, belonging to customer. At the same time, the customers are aware of the new services provided by technology and they become more pretentious and less patient. Thus, the companies confront with the more pressing need to become focused on customer, to be organized depending on the customer´s profile, in order to provide the best service. Likewise, any electronic commerce system has to be permanently developed, improved in order to remain competitive. The numerous consultancy agents and the existing recommendation systems are used for recommending products based upon a top made up by the sellers, on consumers´ demographic criteria, or following an analysis of the consumer´s past behavior as a prediction of the future purchasing behavior. The recommendation forms shall include suggestions for products, shall provide customized information about products, community opinions, including criticisms drafted for some interaction customized in real time. The advisory reflecting the consumer´s protection is almost absent at the level of the consultancy agents. A viable explanation would be that a certain legislation so recently approached has not been well apprehended yet. As the legislation concerning the electronic commerce is consumer´s protection legislation, a consultancy agent taking into consideration the matters of the new legislation in his recommendations, would manage to protect his consumers and to gain their trust.
  • Keywords
    consumer behaviour; consumer products; electronic commerce; globalisation; information filters; legislation; software agents; consultancy agent; consumer behavior; consumer protection legislation; electronic commerce; globalization; product recommendation system; purchasing behavior; software agent; Artificial intelligence; Business; Consumer electronics; Consumer protection; Demography; Electronic commerce; Filters; Globalization; Legislation; Software agents;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Soft Computing Applications, 2009. SOFA '09. 3rd International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Arad
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5054-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5056-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SOFA.2009.5254869
  • Filename
    5254869