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Evolutionary intelligent agents for e-commerce: Generic preference detection with feature analysis
Received 28 March 2004;
Abstract
Product recommendation and preference tracking systems have been adopted extensively in e-commerce businesses. However, the heterogeneity of product attributes results in undesired impediment for an efficient yet personalized e-commerce product brokering. Amid the assortment of product attributes, there are some intrinsic generic attributes having significant relation to a customer’s generic preference. This paper proposes a novel approach in the detection of generic product attributes through feature analysis. The objective is to provide an insight to the understanding of customers’ generic preference. Furthermore, a genetic algorithm is used to find the suitable feature weight set, hence reducing the rate of misclassification. A prototype has been implemented and the experimental results are promising.
Keywords: Generic preference; E-commerce; Generic attributes; Feature analysis; Genetic algorithm
Article Outline
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background
- 3. System design
- 3.1. User feedback and ranking system
- 3.2. Detecting generic attributes with feature analysis
- 3.3. Detecting generic preference
- 3.4. GA-based evolution and feature weight optimization
- 4. Evaluation of design
- 4.1. Convergence of feature set weights
- 4.2. Misclassification rate
- 4.3. Detecting generic attributes
- 4.4. Summary and discussions
- 5. Conclusion
- References






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