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A reverse auction (also known as buyer-determined auction or procurement auction) is a type of auction in which the traditional roles of buyer and seller are reversed. Thus, there is one buyer and many potential sellers. In an ordinary auction also known as a forward auction, buyers compete to obtain goods or services by offering increasingly higher…
The analysis highlights History, History of internet-based reverse auctions and Context as prominent areas in the source structure around Reverse auction.
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The extracted context around Reverse auction shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Reverse auction → Asbjornsen, Bibcode, Bounds, Building Deep Supplier Relationships, Business Horizons, Buyer-Supplier Relationships, Cases, Changed, Chapter, Chicago, Choi, Coelho, Creating, December, Editor, Electronic Reverse Auctions, Exact, Factors, Farouk, Gillard Another extracted example is Reverse auction → BP, Company, Dozens, ExxonMobil, FreeMarkets, General Electric, General Motors, Glen Meakem, Headquartered, Heinz, McKinsey, Meakem, Phelps Dodge, Pittsburgh, Royal Dutch Shell, Sam Kinney, SAP, The, United States, United Technologies. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 109 structured relationships around Reverse auction. Examples in this analysis include General Motors → instance of → Dozens of competing start-up reverse auction service providers and established companies and Reverse auction → related to Comparison of Japanese and Dutch reverse auctions → The. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Motors | instance of | Dozens of competing start-up reverse auction service providers and established companies | 0.80 | text |
| Reverse auction | related to Comparison of Japanese and Dutch reverse auctions | The | 0.60 | section |
| Reverse auction | related to Comparison of Japanese and Dutch reverse auctions | Japanese | 0.60 | section |
| Reverse auction | related to Comparison of Japanese and Dutch reverse auctions | Dutch | 0.60 | section |
| Reverse auction | related to Comparison of Japanese and Dutch reverse auctions | While | 0.60 | section |
| Reverse auction | related to Comparison of Japanese and Dutch reverse auctions | In | 0.60 | section |
| Reverse auction | related to Context | One | 0.60 | section |
| Reverse auction | related to Context | Governments | 0.60 | section |
| Reverse auction | related to Context | Public | 0.60 | section |
| Reverse auction | related to Context | Reverse | 0.60 | section |
| Reverse auction | related to Context | Another | 0.60 | section |
| Reverse auction | related to Context | E-procurement | 0.60 | section |
The concept neighborhoods around Reverse auction bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Auctions, Reverse and Used. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Reverse auction, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Reverse auction with History of internet-based reverse auctions. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Reverse auction to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, History of internet-based reverse auctions & Context, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Reverse auction · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout