• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.27-45
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• 2004

While on-line shopping is increasing, the "Consumer Protection Law in Electronic Commerce" obliges each internet shopping mall to provide its business information. Although most internet shopping malls provide their business information in the semi-structured format on the bottom of their homepages, the attributes and expression forms of business information are different each other. It makes consumers difficult to identify their business information and lowers public confidence. Hence this study proposes three approaches - HTML-based structure, XML-based structure, and XML data island-based structure - to structuralizing business information for correct expression. The experiment results showed that the business information extraction time by XML data island-based structure is independent of the size of the web document, while the time by HTML-based structure is dependent on the size. By comparing the business information extraction times, we show that XML data island-based structure is more efficient and effective than HTML-based structure.structure.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.179-191
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• 2001

Comparison shopping is a merchant brokering process that finds the best price for the desired product from several Web-based online stores. To get a scalable comparison shopper, we need an agent that automatically constructs a simple information extraction procedure, called a wrapper, for each semi-structured store. Automatic construction of wrappers for HTML-based Web stores is difficult because HTML only defines how information is to be displayed, not what it means, and different stores employ different ways of manipulating customer queries and different presentation formats for displaying product descriptions. Wrapper induction has been suggested as a promising strategy for overcoming this heterogeneity. However, previous scalable comparison-shoppers such as ShopBot rely on a strong bias in the product descriptions, and as a result, many stores that do not confirm to this bias were unable to be recognized. This paper proposes a more scalable comparison-shopping agent named MORPHEUS. MORPHEUS presents a simple but robust inductive learning algorithm that antomatically constructs wrappers. The main idea of the proposed algorithm is to recognize the position and the structure of a product description unit by finding the most frequent pattern from the sequence of logical line information in output HTML pages. MORPHEUS successfully constructs correct wtappers for most stores by weakening a bias assumed in previous systems. It also tolerates some noises that might be present in production descriptions such as missing attributes. MORPHEUS generates the wrappers rapidly by excluding the pre-processing phase of removing redundant fragments in a page such as a header, a tailer, and advertisements. Eventually, MORPHEUS provides a framework from which a customized comparison-shopping agent can be organized for a user by facilitating the dynamic addition of new stores.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2014

The purpose of this following research is to verify influence of brand personality development of domestic Internet shopping malls on consumer satisfaction and intention to revisit. To achieve this purpose, a sample study was carried out on college students in Busan who made a purchase from Internet shopping malls during the past 6 months. In the concrete, 11 shopping malls including general shopping malls and open market that have a high market share were chosen as comparison targets. Materials were collected and analyzed through questionnaire survey. Empirical analysis results are shown as the following. Brand personality dimension of Internet shopping malls are 'competence sophistication', 'vitality', 'warmth' and 'reliability' etc. 'Warmth' and 'reliability' have a significant influence on consumer satisfaction and intention to revisit. In particular, 'reliability' showed bigger influence on intention to revisit Internet shopping malls. In addition, consumer satisfaction showed a meaningful influence on intention to revisit. Specific strategy development is needed to strengthen 'warmth' and 'reliability' among brand personality dimensions.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.73-80
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• 2015

Starting the popularity of Korean dramas exported to China in 1996, the Korean wave started around the world market. Afterwards, as the Korean culture itself as well as dramas rapidly emerged as contents of the Korean market, the foreign direct sale consumers who want to buy Korean goods directly online are increasing at an alarming rate. This study each selected 4 domestic shopping malls and 4 foreign famous shopping malls which were conducting a global marketing currently and compared/researched them in the design aspect in order to apprehend if domestic online shopping malls were properly meeting the consumer environment of the foreign market. As a result, it was revealed that domestic online shopping malls conducting the global marketing could not fully understand the internet environment by countries and were going through a limit of the information delivery by SMS, and could not use the visual signs actively which were useful to the meaning delivery. Accordingly, this thesis suggested a plan to actively utilize the variable element considering various screens to the design, plan to efficiently design the text for solving the language problem by countries, and plan to design using the developing IT technology as a solution to those problems.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.127-133
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• 2018

In recent years, the interest and importance of the sharing economy is increasing, and car sharing services are being activated. This study examined the effect of shopping value perceived by consumers on brand loyalty and intention to use the car sharing service. The purpose of this study is to identify the effects of these relationships on utilitarian and hedonic shopping values. To verify this, data were collected from 364 car sharing users and analyzed using structural equation modeling. As a result, both utilitarian shopping value and hedonic shopping value had a positive effect on brand loyalty. Brand loyalty had a positive effect on intention to use. Therefore, this study can confirm that the use situation of car sharing service is a theoretical and practical point in suggesting shopping value considering consumption attribute. This implies that a consumer-oriented approach to the sharing economy is needed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.33 no.12
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• pp.1862-1872
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• 2009

This study identifies the apparel shopping value segments of Korean and Chinese college students to examine the differences in the importance of apparel store attributes. Data from 504 questionnaires filled out by college students from Seoul and Beijing were used for statistical analysis. The four segments of apparel shopping values are, hedonic shopping segment, low involvement shopping segment, high involvement shopping segment, and utilitarian shopping segment. In the high involvement shopping segment, Korean respondents considered store atmosphere, convenience, and the services of salespersons to be more important than the other segments. Chinese respondents in both the hedonic shopping segment and high involvement shopping segment considered store atmosphere more important than the other segments. Korean respondents considered store service more important than the Chinese respondents in the hedonic shopping segment, but Chinese respondents were more likely to consider store convenience to be more important than Korean respondents. In the low involvement shopping segment, Korean respondents considered store atmosphere, store services, and the selection of goods more important than Chinese respondents did. In the high involvement shopping segment, Korean respondents considered the services of salespersons to be more important than the Chinese respondents but the Chinese respondents evaluated store convenience as more important than Korean respondents. In the utilitarian shopping segment, Korean respondents were more likely to consider store service, the selection of goods, and services of salespersons more important than Chinese respondents did.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.29-31
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• 2002

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.57-73
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• 2003

• Proceedings of the Korean DIstribution Association Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.203-215
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• 2003

• Proceedings of KHEA Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.174-174
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• 2004