Title
Modeling Preferences Online
Abstract
The search for an online product that matches e-shoppers' needs and preferences can be frustrating and time-consuming. Browsing large lists arranged in tree-like structures demands focused attention from e-shoppers. Keyword search often results in either too many useless items (low precision) or few or none useful ones (low recall). This can cause potential buyers to seek another seller or choose to go in person to a store. This paper introduces the SPOT (Stated Preference Ontology Targeted) methodology to model e-shoppers' decision-making processes and use them to refine a search and show products and services that meet their preferences. SPOT combines probabilistic theory on discrete choices, the theory of stated preferences, and knowledge modeling (i.e. ontologies). The probabilistic theory on discrete choices coupled with e-shoppers' stated preferences data allow us to unveil parameters e-shoppers would employ to reach a decision of choice related to a given product or service. Those parameters are used to rebuild the decision process and evaluate alternatives to select candidate products that are more likely to match e-shoppers' choices. We use a synthetic example to demonstrate how our approach distinguishes from currently used methods for e-commerce.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/978-3-540-74063-6_12
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
e-commerce,discrete choices,stated preferences,personalization,ontologies,user modelling
Ontology (information science),Ontology,Data mining,Computer science,User modeling,Probabilistic logic,Recall,E-commerce,Knowledge modeling,Personalization
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
1
1865-1348
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maria-cleci Martins100.68
Rosina Weber233434.42