Ontology-Based Shopping Agent for E-Marketing

  • Authors:
  • C. R. Chatwin;Sam Kin Meng

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Sussex, UK;University of Macau, China

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Before Internet consumers make buying decisions, several psychological factors come into effect and reflect individual preferences on products. In this paper, the authors investigate four integrated streams: 1 recognizing the psychological factors that affect Internet consumers, 2 understanding the relationship between businesses' e-marketing mix and Internet consumers' psychological factors, 3 designing an ontology mapping businesses' e-marketing mix with Internet consumers' decision-making styles, and 4 developing a shopping agent based on the ontology. The relationship between businesses' e-marketing mix and Internet consumers' psychological factors is important because it can identify situations where both businesses and Internet consumers benefit. The authors' ontology can be used to share Internet consumers' psychological factors, the e-marketing mix of online business and their relationships with different computer applications.