Communications of the ACM
A scalable comparison-shopping agent for the World-Wide Web
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Machine Learning
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AMET '98 Selected Papers from the First International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
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The Knowledge Engineering Review
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ICEC '05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Electronic commerce
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Decision Support Systems
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International Journal of Electronic Commerce
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ISTASC'09 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on Systems Theory and Scientific Computation
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Decision Support Systems
Multi-agent system approach to context-aware coordinated web services under general market mechanism
Decision Support Systems
A comparison shopping optimization model based on suppliers' pricing contexts
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Applying hybrid case-based reasoning in agent-based negotiations for supply chain management
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
An intelligent, mobile information system to aid in-store purchase decision making
CIMMACS'05 Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS international conference on Computational intelligence, man-machine systems and cybernetics
Rule-based personalized comparison shopping including delivery cost
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Design of a RFID-Based ubiquitous comparison shopping system
KES'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part I
Effects of product learning aids on the breadth and depth of recall
Decision Support Systems
Concept comparison engines: A new frontier of search
Decision Support Systems
Competitive Shopbots-Mediated Markets
ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation
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Agents are the catalysts for commerce on the Web today. For example, comparison-shopping agents mediate the interactions between consumers and suppliers in order to yield markets that are more efficient. However, today's shopping agents are price-dominated, unreflective of the nature of supplier/consumer differentiation or the changing course of differentiation over time. This paper aims to tackle this dilemma and advances shopping agents into a stage where both kinds of differentiation are taken into account for enhanced understanding of the realities. We call them personalized and integrative shopping agents. These agents can leverage the interactive power of the Web for a more accurate understanding of consumer's preferences. This paper then presents a comparison-shopping engine that can be easily instantiated to become personalized and integrative shopping agents. This engine comprises of a product/merchant information collector, a consumer behavior extractor, a user profile manager, and an on-line learning personalized ranking module. We have built this engine and instantiated a comparison-shopping system for collecting preliminary evaluation results. The results show that this system is quite promising in overcoming the reality challenges of comparison shopping. In order to strengthen the contributions of this engine, we also gave a fielded application of this engine for personalized travel information discovery and explained the great potentials of this engine for a variety of comparison-shopping tasks.