Publications associées à Commerce en ligne

Cross-chain payment protocols with success guarantees

In this paper, we consider the problem of cross-chain payment whereby customers of different escrows-implemented by a bank or a blockchain smart contract-successfully transfer digital assets without trusting each other. Prior to this work, cross-chain paym ...

SPRINGER2023

Quantitative Methods for Omnichannel Decision-Making

Andrey Vasilyev

Omnichannel retail has emerged as the new standard in today's commerce landscape, with retailers integrating their physical and online channels to enhance the customer shopping experience. However, such integration presents significant challenges for retai ...

EPFL2023

Operating System and Network Co-Design for Latency-Critical Datacenter Applications

Evangelos Marios Kogias

Datacenters are the heart of our digital lives. Online applications, such as social-networking and e-commerce, run inside datacenters under strict Service Level Objectives for their tail latency. Tight latency SLOs are necessary for such services to remain ...

EPFL2020

Handling probabilistic integrity constraints in pay-as-you-go reconciliation of data models

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên, Zoltán Miklós

Data models capture the structure and characteristic properties of data entities, e.g., in terms of a database schema or an ontology. They are the backbone of diverse applications, reaching from information integration, through peer-to-peer systems and ele ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Scalable Collaborative Bayesian Preference Learning

Matthias Seeger, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, Young Jun Ko

Learning about users’ utilities from preference, discrete choice or implicit feedback data is of integral importance in e-commerce, targeted advertising and web search. Due to the sparsity and diffuse nature of data, Bayesian approaches hold much promise, ...

2014

Decoding Delay Minimization in Inter-Session Network Coding

Pascal Frossard, Nikolaos Thomos, Eirina Bourtsoulatze

Intra-session network coding has been shown to offer significant gains in terms of achievable throughput and delay in settings where one source multicasts data to several clients. In this paper, we consider a more general scenario where multiple sources tr ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Modelling hybrid demand (e-commerce " plus " traditional) evolution: A scenario planning approach

Rémy Glardon, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Luca Canetta

This work presents a "3 steps-2 aggregation levels" methodological approach for modelling the evolution of the hybrid demand order flow pattern over long time horizons. The hybrid demand is the result of the mutual interaction between the e-commerce and th ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Effective Usage of Computational Trust Models in Rational Environments

Karl Aberer, Hung Le Vu

Computational reputation-based trust models using statistical learning have been intensively studied for distributed systems where peers behave maliciously. However practical applications of such models in environments with both malicious and rational beha ...

2011

Eye-Tracking Product Recommenders' Usage

Pearl Pu Faltings, Nicolas Jones

Recommender systems have emerged as an effective decision tool to help users more easily and quickly find products that they prefer, especially in e-commerce environments. However, few studies have tried to understand how this technology has influenced the ...

ACM2010

Prediction of hybrid (e-commerce and traditional) demand evolution and the assessment of its impact on production system robustness

Luca Canetta

Increased market pressure, sharp competition and globalisation are some of the main challenges faced nowadays by companies, pushing them to continuously evaluate the suitability of their business model and to look for new opportunities. Electronic commerce ...

EPFL2009

An Enhanced Service Provider Communication Interface with Client Priorization

Milos Stanisavljevic, Slobodan Lukovic

With the increased dynamics of modern life, the efficiency and reliability of everyday services is emerging to be a fundamental concern. On the other hand, modern telecommunication technologies, like wireless Internet access, are penetrating all segments o ...

IEEE/WFM2008

A Visual Interface for Critiquing-based Recommender Systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Nicolas Jones, Jiyong Zhang

Critiquing-based recommender systems provide an efficient way for users to navigate through complex product spaces even if they are not familiar with the domain details in e-commerce environments. While recent research has mainly concentrated on methods fo ...

Acm Order Department, P O Box 64145, Baltimore, Md 21264 Usa2008

A Cross-Cultural User Evaluation of Product Recommender Interfaces

Pearl Pu Faltings, Li Chen

We present a cross-cultural user evaluation of an organization-based product recommender interface, by comparing it with the traditional list view. The results show that it performed significantly better, for all study participants, in improving on their c ...

Acm Order Department, P O Box 64145, Baltimore, Md 21264 Usa2008

Evaluating product search and recommender systems for E-commerce environments

Pearl Pu Faltings, Li Chen, Pratyush Kumar

Online systems that help users select the most preferential item from a large electronic catalog are known as product search and recommender systems. Evaluation of various proposed technologies is essential for further development in this area. This paper ...

Springer US2008

Performance evaluation of consumer decision support systems

Pearl Pu Faltings

Consumer decision support systems (CDSSs) help online users make purchasing decisions in e-commerce Web sites. To more effectively compare the usefulness of the various functionalities and interface features of such systems, we have developed a simulation ...

Idea Group Publishing2006

Integrating tradeoff support in product search tools for E-commerce sites

Pearl Pu Faltings, Li Chen

In a previously reported user study, we found that users were able to perform decision tradeoff tasks more efficiently and commit considerably fewer errors with the example critiquing interface than with the ranked list. We concluded that example-based sea ...

Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY 10036-5701, United States2005

Building trust-aware P2P systems : from trust and reputation management to decentralized e-commerce applications

Zoran Despotovic

This thesis is concerned with enabling e-commerce applications in decentralized environments, P2P networks in particular. The work goes along the following two dimensions: P2P reputation systems design and building P2P e-commerce services and applications. ...

EPFL2005

Le management des communautés virtuelles : organisation des processus sociotechniques, vers un modèle générique

Olivier Glassey

In the last three decades the management of information technologies has become a major issue in most organizations. In this context, virtual communities (VC), as a means to technologically foster collective social exchanges, are often proposed as viable s ...

EPFL2005

Effort and accuracy analysis of choice strategies for electronic product catalogs

Pearl Pu Faltings, Jiyong Zhang

One crucial task for e-commerce systems is to help buyers find products that not only satisfy their preferences but also reduce their search effort. Usually the amount of available products is far beyond the upper limit that any individual could process by ...

Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY 10036-5701, United States2005

Separating Business Process from User Interaction in Web-Based Information Commerce

Karl Aberer, Anwitaman Datta, Zoran Despotovic

In Web-based information commerce it is diffcult to disentangle presentation from process logic, and sometimes even data is not separate from the presentation. Consequently, it becomes crucial to define an abstract model for business processes and their ma ...

2003