Personality-rich believable agents that use language
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
COSIMA- your smart, speaking E-salesperson
SIGMOD '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Adding Life-Like Synthetic Characters to the Web
CIA '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents IV, The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace
Effects of Bargaining in Electronic Commerce
WECWIS '99 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advance Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems
Design and Implementation of COSIMA -A Smart and Speaking E-Sales Assistant
WECWIS '01 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS '01)
Optimization of relational preference queries
ADC '05 Proceedings of the 16th Australasian database conference - Volume 39
Foundations of preferences in database systems
VLDB '02 Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases
Preference SQL: design, implementation, experiences
VLDB '02 Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases
Hi-index | 0.00 |
Multi-objective bargaining is a challenging business model for B2C or B2B Internet applications. Our visual bargaining agent COSIMA builds on cooperative database technology like Preference SQL or Preference XPATH, which can efficiently implement \linebreak[4] multi-dimensional search engines with a Pareto-optimality semantics to find best alternative offers. COSIMA is a smart avatar with dynamically generated speech output. We have implemented several well-known bargaining strategies for a sample e-shop, where the customer can bargain on more attributes than just the price. The life-like appearance of COSIMA is supported by randomizing her bargaining tactics and by expressing visual emotions during bargaining. She can also learn and adapt dynamically to various bargaining preferences of the customers. The COSIMA prototype is carefully engineered by means of component-ware and IT-standards including SQL, XML and Java. This makes it scalable even to very large e-shop databases. Measurements show that this advanced user interface of COSIMA requires only a small overhead of a few seconds, including the bidding process. Thus real-time performance using state-of-the art software components and hardware is feasible. A preliminary user feedback has been very encouraging. COSIMA gave her debut to a large professional audience at the computer fair CeBIT 2002.