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Matchmaking in p2p e-marketplaces: soft constraints and compromise matching

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ICEC '10: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce: Roadmap for the Future of Electronic Business

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2389376.2389395

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Automated matchmaking is increasingly used in e-marketplaces. A participant is presented with a ranked list of coun- terpart profiles of other participants. A participant profile consists of a set of hard (inflexible) and soft (flexible) con- straints. For two participant profiles, corresponding pairs of constraints are compared. We propose compromise match- ing wherein one or both constraints of a pair are soft and their values do not match exactly. We demonstrate com- promise matching with a home rental use case with data obtained from an existing e-marketplace.

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ICEC '10: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce: Roadmap for the Future of Electronic Business

August 2010

215 pages

ISBN:9781450314275

DOI:10.1145/2389376

Conference Chairs:
Tung Bui
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Matthias Jarke
RWTH, Technical University of Aachen
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Program Chairs:
Vasant Dhar
New York University
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Kai Lung Hui
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Helmut Krcmar
Technical University of Munich

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