Market-based recommendation: Agents that compete for consumer attention

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 420-448

  Bohte, Sander M ^a,c   Gerding, Enrico ^a,c   La Poutré, Han ^b,c  

^a Netherlands Ctr Math Comp Sci   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ACE; Agent based computational economics; Competitive multi agent systems; Electronic markets; Learning agents; Market based programming; Recommendation systems

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMIES (ACE); COMPETITIVE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC MARKETS; LEARNING AGENTS; RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 10944234573     PISSN: 15335399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1031114.1031118     Document Type: Article

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