Using social media to predict future events with agent-based markets

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 50-58

  Bothos, Efthimios ^a   Apostolou, Dimitris ^b   Mentzas, Gregoris ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Academy Awards; decision support; intelligent agents; Intelligent systems; prediction markets

Indexed keywords

ACADEMY AWARDS; AGENT BASED; DECISION SUPPORTS; PREDICTION MARKETS; SOCIAL MEDIA; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

COMMERCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 79951665038     PISSN: 15411672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2010.152     Document Type: Article

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