Personalized pricing recommender system: Multi-stage epsilon-greedy approach

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems, HetRec 2011 - Held at the 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 57-64

  Toshihiro, Kamishima ^a   Shotaro, Akaho ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Multi armed bandit; Personalized pricing; Recommender system

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; COMMERCIAL VIABILITY; CURRENT SYSTEM; CUSTOMER DATA; E-COMMERCE SITES; INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMERS; MULTI ARMED BANDIT; MULTI-STAGE; OFFER PRICE; PERSONALIZATIONS; PERSONALIZED PRICING; PRICING SCHEME; RECOMMENDATION ALGORITHMS;

COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; SALES;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 81455142574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2039320.2039329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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