Buyer Agent Decision Process Based on Automatic Fuzzy Rules Generation Methods

Arapoglou, R., Kolomvatsos, K. and Hadjiefthymiades, S. (2010) Buyer Agent Decision Process Based on Automatic Fuzzy Rules Generation Methods. In: 2010 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ), Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 Jul 2010, ISBN 9781424469215 (doi: 10.1109/FUZZY.2010.5584416)

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Abstract

Software Agents can assume the responsibility of finding and negotiating products on behalf of their owners in an electronic marketplace. In such cases, Fuzzy Logic can provide an efficient reasoning mechanism especially for the buyer side. Agents representing buyers can rely on a fuzzy rule base in order to reason for their next action at every round of the interaction process with sellers. In this paper, we describe a model where the buyer builds its fuzzy knowledge base using algorithms for automatic fuzzy rules generation based on data provided by experts and compare a set of such algorithms. Owing to such algorithms, agent developers spend less time and effort for the definition of the underlying rule base. Moreover, the rule base is efficiently created through the use of the dataset indicating the behaviour of the buyer and, thus, representing its line of actions in the electronic marketplace. In our work, we use such algorithms for the definition of the buyer behaviour and we provide critical insides for every algorithm describing their advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, we present numerical results for every basic parameter of the interaction process, such as the time required for the rule base generation, the Joint Utility of the interaction process or the value of the acceptance degree that each algorithm results.

Item Type:Conference Proceedings
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Kolomvatsos, Dr Kostas
Authors: Arapoglou, R., Kolomvatsos, K., and Hadjiefthymiades, S.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
ISSN:1098-7584
ISBN:9781424469215
Published Online:23 September 2010

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