Jong Wan Kim, Young Sn Kim, Seung A Lee, Seung Hoon Jin, Young Jik Kwon, Soon Cheol Kim

The KIPS Transactions:PartB , Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 617-624, Dec. 2001
10.3745/KIPSTB.2001.8.6.617,   PDF Download:

Abstract

With the proliferation of E-Commerce, product informations and services are provided to customers diversely. Thus customers want a software agent that can retrieve and recommend goods satisfying various purchase conditions as well as price. In this paper, we present a MAS (multi-agent system) for book information retrieval and recommendation in E-Commerce. Users preference is reflected in the MAS using the profile which is taken by user. The proposed MAS is composed of individual agents that support information retrieval, information recommendation, user interface, and web robots and a coordination agent which performs information sharing and job management between individual agents. Our goal is to design and implement this multi-agent system on a Windows NT server. Owing to the workflow management of the coordination agent, we can remove redundant information retrievals of web robots. From the results, we could provide customers various purchase conditions for several online bookstores in real-time.

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