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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2012.12.12.733

Identifying the Main Price Ranges of Online Product Category  

Kim, Jun Woo (동아대학교 산업경영공학과)
Im, Kwang Hyuk (배재대학교 전자상거래학과)
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Abstract
In recent, many consumers visit the online shopping malls or price comparison sites to collect the information on the product category that they are interested in. However, the volumes of the data provided by such web sites are often too enormous, and significant number of consumers have trouble in making purchase decision based on the plethora of products and sellers. In this context, modern online shopping agents need to process the retrieved information in more intelligent way before providing them to the users. This paper proposes a novel approach for identifying the main price ranges hidden in a single product category. To this end, the price of an item in the category is represented as a row vector and k-means clustering analysis is applied to the price vectors to produce the clusters that consists of the product items with similar price vectors. Then, the main price ranges of the product category can be identified from the result of clustering analysis. In general, the price is one of the most important factors in the consumers' purchase decision, and the identified main price ranges will be helpful for the online shoppers to find appropriate items effectively.
Keywords
Online Shopping; Price Range; Shopping Agent; Product Category; Clustering Analysis;
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