Measuring consumers' willingness to pay with utility-based recommendation systems

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 72, Issue , 2015, Pages 60-71

  Scholz, Michael ^a   Dorner, Verena ^b   Franz, Markus ^c   Hinz, Oliver ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Utility function e commerce; Utility based recommendation system; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ECONOMICS;

CONSUMERS' PREFERENCES; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EXPONENTIAL UTILITY FUNCTION; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR UTILITY FUNCTIONS; UTILITY FUNCTIONS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY; WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY ESTIMATES;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84925299013     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2015.02.006     Document Type: Article

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