Estimating optimal recommendation set sizes for individual consumers

International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages 2440-2459

  Scholz, Michael ^a   Dorner, Verena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Multiple attribute utility theory; Recommendation agent; Signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

DETECTION APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE UTILITY; PRODUCT INFORMATION; RECOMMENDATION AGENTS; SIGNAL DETECTION THEORY; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84886473937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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