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2003 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'03)
PCFinder: An Intelligent Product Recommendation Agent for E-Commerce
Newport Beach, California
June 24-June 27
ISBN: 0-7695-1969-5
Bin Xiao, University of Montreal
Esma A?meur, University of Montreal
Jos? Manuel Fernandez, University of Montreal
There are many e-commerce applications on the web. A comon shortcoming is the lack of customer service and marketing analysis tools in most e-commerce web sites. In order to overcome this problem, we have constructed an intelligent agent based on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) and collaborative filtering, which we have included in our product recommendation system, called PCFinder.
This system was four main characteristics. The first is applying novel methodologies based on CBR to an e-commerce application. We propose a heuristic to represent an Order-Based Similarity Measure, together with the method of weight modification and adaptation. The second is applying CBR and collaborative filtering techniques to make our intelligent agent more efficient and effective. We also apply clustering analysis techniques to assist our intelligent agent for grouping the customers according to their long-term profiles in order to analyse the user profiles (external attributes) and provide some suggestions of the items (internal attributes) of the product. The third is introducing a method for constructing product recommendation systems: from architecture to methodologies and from applied technologies to implementations. The last is providing a graphic-building wizard based on clustering anaylysis of the past purchasing history to the management staff for analysing the marketing tendencies.
Citation:
Bin Xiao, Esma A?meur, Jos? Manuel Fernandez, "PCFinder: An Intelligent Product Recommendation Agent for E-Commerce," cec, pp.181, 2003 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'03), 2003
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