Market-aware agents that help consumers choose products/services
Personal agents have been developed that assist user with information processing needs by generating, filtering, collecting, or transforming information. On the other hand internet stores are providing services customized by the needs and interests of individual customers. Such services can be viewed as ``seller's agents" whose goal is to push merchandise and/or services on to the users. This leads us to believe that there is a growing need for deploying ``buyer's agents" whose goal is to best serve the user's interests. In particular, such agents should alert the user of the complex interactions between specified preferences and prevailing market conditions. The availability of such information makes the user a more informed customer. We discuss the design and prototype implementation of a buyer's agent in an apartment locator application.
Publications From This Project
Osman Yucel and Sandip Sen, "Language Independent Recommender Agent" in The Knowledge Engineering Review, 33:e15, 2018
Feyza Merve Hafizoglu and Sandip Sen, "Analysis of Fairness and Incentives of Profit Sharing Schemes in Group Buying,"in Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce, Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets, Vol. 187, pages 70--83, Springer, 2014.
Sandip Sen, "Using agent model to find efficient envy-free allocation of a continuously divisible good between two agents,"in International Journal of AI Vol. 4 (Spring), pages 21--34, 2010.
Stephane Airiau and Sandip Sen, "On the Stability of an Optimal Coalition Structure," in the Proceedings of the Nineteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence , pages 203--208, Lisboa, Portugal, August 2010.
Stephane Airiau and Sandip Sen, "A fair payoff distribution for myopic rational agents," in the Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems , (pages 1305-1306), Budapest, Hungary, May 10--15, 2009.
Karina Hernandez and Sandip Sen , "A Buyer's Agent", in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (pages 156--162), held in Barcelona, Spain between June 2-8, 2000.
S. Sen, P.S. Dutta, R. Mukherjee, "Agents that represent Buyer's interest in E-commerce,'' in the Working Notes of the AAAI-2000 Workshop on Knowledge Based Electronic Markets.
R. Mukherjee, P.S. Dutta, S. Sen, "Analysis of domain-specific ontologies for agent-oriented information retrieval," in the Working Notes of the AAAI-2000 Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems.