Title
vBroker: artificial agents helping to stock up on knowledge
Abstract
Hungary, a former socialist country, has a thriving financial market (Budapest Stock Exchange, BSE) 15 years after the systems change. Yet, the general public's knowledge about the BSE, or about stock markets in general, is very limited and most small investors are only aware of a single investment option: the savings account. The vBroker project (funded by the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority) aimed at familiarizing the Hungarian public with the workings of the stock market. It consisted of a combination of three elements: an e-learning portal with material on financial markets, an intelligent training assistant agent (an intelligent chatter robot connected to a specialized knowledge base) and a multi-agent based simulated stock market, packaged as an online investment game. This paper describes the vBroker portal, gives an overview of its main modules, and discusses its embodied communicational agent and its artificial stock market in more detail.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/11559221_34
CEEMAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
general public,hungarian public,artificial stock market,e-learning portal,communicational agent,hungarian financial supervisory authority,simulated stock market,financial market,artificial agent,thriving financial market,stock market,stock exchange,knowledge base
Intelligent agent,Primary market,Computer science,Computer security,Stock exchange,Savings account,Knowledge base,Financial market,Finance,Stock market,Distributed computing,The Internet
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3690
0302-9743
3-540-29046-X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.53
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gábor Tatai172.92
László Gulyás23910.71
László Laufer3104.07
Márton Iványi410.86