Journal
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 143-158Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2004.09.001
Keywords
decision support systems; buyer support; recommendation systems; fuzzy sets; alternative generation
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In this paper we propose a method for supporting consumer buying decisions in e-commerce. We are advocating the diversity-driven approach to generating alternatives for infrequently purchased products (i.e., computers, vehicles, etc.). Our method is based upon the well-known divergence/convergence principle of problem solving. The paper discusses the method based on fuzzy weighted-sum model and cluster analysis, the architecture and the operation of the decision support system for generating product alternatives. The preliminary experiments with the prototype for notebook selection provide some support in favor of our approach over the catalog-based systems. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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