An agent-based recommender system for developing customized families of products

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 649-659

  Moon, Seung Ki ^a   Simpson, Timothy W ^a   Kumara, Soundar R T ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Mass customization; Multi agent system; Product family design; Recommender system

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; DESIGN KNOWLEDGE; ELECTRONIC MARKET; INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMERS; LEARNING MECHANISM; MARKET SEGMENT; MASS CUSTOMIZATION; MULTIAGENT FRAMEWORK; PRODUCT FAMILIES; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SIMULATED EXPERIMENTS; TRADITIONAL PRODUCTS;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SALES;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 70450230857     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: 15728145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10845-008-0154-9     Document Type: Article

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