This book discusses in detail the impact of the Internet on the real-estate brokerage industry. It starts by tracing the history of the industry in America, and then goes on to present case studies of successful online brokerage companies and startups, and to evaluate future trends from the perspectives of investors as well as researchers. It explains how the Internet can transform an industry, enabling readers to spot potential investment opportunities.

This book elaborates on the six pillars of a healthy and standardized real-estate brokerage industry: the generation, distribution and matching of information; the transaction system; circulation finance; mobile Internet; the supervision system; and professional brokers. With each of these pillars playing a role, they also mutually interact to constitute an integrated framework that regulates the brokerage industry. Presenting practicable, extensive and cutting-edge research that encompass...

The four-volume set LNAI 16102 - 16105 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th CCF National Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2025, held in Urumqi, China, during August 7–9, 2025.The 152 full papers and 26 evaluation workshop papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 505 submissions. They were focused on the following topical sections:Part I : Information Extraction and Knowledge Graph & Larg...

The four-volume set LNAI 16102 - 16105 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th CCF National Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2025, held in Urumqi, China, during August 7–9, 2025.The 152 full papers and 26 evaluation workshop papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 505 submissions. They were focused on the following topical sections:Part I : Information Extraction and Knowledge Graph & Larg...

The four-volume set LNAI 16102 - 16105 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th CCF National Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2025, held in Urumqi, China, during August 7–9, 2025.The 152 full papers and 26 evaluation workshop papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 505 submissions. They were focused on the following topical sections:Part I : Information Extraction and Knowledge Graph & Larg...

The four-volume set LNAI 16102 - 16105 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th CCF National Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2025, held in Urumqi, China, during August 7–9, 2025.The 152 full papers and 26 evaluation workshop papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 505 submissions. They were focused on the following topical sections:Part I : Information Extraction and Knowledge Graph & Larg...