Comparison Shopping Agents: the essential characteristics and challenges to be met

Author

Prasad, Rvvsv ; Kumari, V. Vallli ; Raju, KVSVN

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Bhimavaram Inst. of Eng. & Technol., Bhimavaram, India

fYear

2009

fDate

22-24 July 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Comparison shopping agents are Web applications that can help on-line shoppers to find the optimized value for commodities and/or services by parsing product descriptions. Adaption of mobile agent system, which has capability of effectively supporting the distributed applications in open and heterogeneous environments, is best suited for comparison shopping agent implementation. The major goal of this paper is to present a study of the characteristics of different stake holders in multiple perspectives. The paper addresses various issues and challenges, indicating a need for further empirical research.

Keywords

Internet; marketing; mobile agents; Web applications; comparison shopping agents; distributed applications; heterogeneous environments; mobile agent system; online shoppers; open environments; product descriptions; stake holders; Application software; Computer science; Educational institutions; Fault tolerance; Information security; Information systems; Mobile agents; Robustness; Space technology; Systems engineering and theory; agent; comparison shopping; consume; vendor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Agent & Multi-Agent Systems, 2009. IAMA 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4710-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAMA.2009.5228061

Filename

5228061