Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems (지능정보연구)

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Intelligent Shopping Agents Using Finite Domain Constraint under Semantic Web

의미웹에서 한정도메인 제약식을 이용한 지능형 쇼핑에이전트 : CD 쇼핑몰의 경우를 중심으로

  • Kim, Hak-Jin (Dept. of Business Administration, Yonsei University) ;
  • Lee, Myung Jin (Dept. of Industrial & Information Engineering, Yonsei University)
  • 김학진 (연세대 경영대학 경영학과) ;
  • 이명진 (연세대학교 공과대학 정보산업공학과)
  • Published : 2006.12.31
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Abstract

When a consumer intends to purchase products through Internet stores, many difficulties are met because of limitations of the current search engines and the current web structure, and lack of tools supporting decision-makings. This paper raises an Internet shopping problem and proposes a framework of decision making process to settle it with an intelligent agent based on Semantic Web and Finite Domain Constraint. The agent uses finite domain constraint programming as modeling and solution methods for the decision problem under the Semantic Web environment.

인터넷을 통한 온라인 구매에 소비자들은 현 탐색엔진 및 웹 구조의 한계와 의사결정 도구의 부족으로 많은 어려움을 겪는다. 이 논문은 인터넷 쇼핑의 상황에서 소비자가 결정해야 하는 의사결정 문제를 상정하고 지능형 에이전트 구축을 통하여 그 의사결정 과정을 돕는 의사결정의 틀을 제시한다. 이 에이전트는 의미 웹 환경에서 한정도메인 제약식 프로그래밍을 추론엔진으로 삼아 의사결정을 돕는다. 이를 통해 의미웹과 제약식 프로그래밍의 두 기술의 결합이 인터넷 쇼핑 시 소비자가 겪게 되는 어려움을 어떻게 해결하는지를 제시한다.

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