Designing a Better Shopbot

Management Science

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 189-206

  Montgomery, Alan L ^a   Hosanagar, Kartik ^b   Krishnan, Ramayya ^c   Clay, Karen B ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Intelligent agents; Stochastic modeling; Utility theory

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COSTS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PURCHASING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

STOCHASTIC MODELING; UTILITY THEORY;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 1642294924     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1030.0151     Document Type: Review

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