Designing intelligent sales-agent for online selling

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 113, Issue , 2005, Pages 279-286

  Huang, Shiu Li ^a   Lin, Fu Ren ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

abstract argumentation framework; negotiation; persuasion; reinforcement learning; sales agent

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT ARGUMENTATION; ABSTRACT ARGUMENTATION FRAMEWORK; FIELD EXPERIMENT; NEGOTIATION; NEGOTIATION STRATEGY; NEW APPROACHES; PERSUASION; PRODUCT EVALUATION; RESEARCH DESIGNS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ABSTRACTING; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; REINFORCEMENT; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; RETAIL STORES;

SALES;

EID: 77953838408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1089551.1089605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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