E-commerce has been keeping fast increasing worldwide since beginning of the 21stcentury. Rapid growth of e-commerce & parcel shipping is a booming business. However, howto handle with many hard-to-solve sustainability issues of transport in urban areas, is becominga serious challenge for urban...

Many online marketplaces (e.g., Amazon) use recommendation systems to personalize product recommendations for each customer. In practice, many recommendation systems are “profit-based,” recommending the product that maximizes the marketplaces’ expected profit from each consumer. We study...

In online retailing or electronic retailing (or e-retailing, electronic commerce, Internet retailing, e-commerce), retailers offer their products and services over the Internet. Merchandise is thus presented in Internet shops. Customers usually place their orders via electronic checkouts or they...

Vicennial anniversary is a major milestone, reinforcing the strengths of an educational citadel, testifying the importance of teamwork governed by values and principles. As there is always room for coincidence, sometimes the effort is rewarded by successful organizing in the same period of time...

Since the advent of the internet, shopping has been a key component in its commercial use and usefulness. Products and services such as books, clothing, household goods, theatre/cinema tickets and holidays were some of the original offerings. Over time the range of products and services...

Since the advent of the internet, shopping has been a key component in its commercial use and usefulness. Products and services such as books, clothing, household goods, theatre/cinema tickets and holidays were some of the original offerings. Over time the range of products and services...

We already live in a world of digital empowered intelligent customers, of digital products, of digital business operations and digital competitors. The fierce competition forces firms to exploit digital technologies, to have profound knowledge, to focus on market imperatives and to demonstrate a...

Today’s consumers are increasingly using technology as an effective tool in their shopping experience. Social media can be defined as Internet-based applications that carry information posted by end users. End users utilize several online formats (e.g., blogs, podcasts, social networks,...