Handy broker: An intelligent product-brokering agent for m-commerce applications with user preference tracking

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 314-330

  Guan, Steven ^a   Ngoo, Chon Seng ^a   Zhu, Fangming ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; m Commerce; Product brokering agent; Profiling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; USER INTERFACES;

M-COMMERCE; PRODUCT-BROKERING AGENT; PROFILING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 1542490106     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-4223(02)00023-6     Document Type: Article

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