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Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Volume 4, Issue 4, Winter 2005, Pages 377-394
Developments in intelligent support for e-Commerce negotiation applications
 
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Evolutionary intelligent agents for e-commerce: Generic preference detection with feature analysis

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Sheng-Uei GuanCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, Tai Kheng Chan and Fangming Zhu

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Singapore


Received 28 March 2004; 
revised 7 May 2005; 
accepted 1 July 2005. 
Available online 18 July 2005.

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
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Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
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