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Soft Computing in Electronic Business

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Soft Computing and its Applications in Business and Economics

Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 157))

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In an era of electronic commerce businesses and consumers have access to vast amounts of potentially important information. While this is beneficial for making informed decisions, the decision makers could easily become overwhelmed by the information, much of which may not be relevant. Thus, there is a pressing need for decision aiding tools that would effectively process, filter, and deliver the right information to the organizational and individual decision makers. In this work we argue that combination of DSS and agent technologies could prove a very powerful tool for rendering decision support in e-commerce application. We propose an architecture for a multi-agent DSS for e-commerce, and describe a prototype system for making on-line investment decisions.

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  1. Department of Control Systems, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Joint MBA Program (USA, Azerbaijan), 20 Azadlyg Avenue, Baku az1010, Azerbaijan

    Professor Rafik Aziz Aliev

  2. Department of Computer Information Systems & Institute of International Business, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, 30303, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Professor Bijan Fazlollahi

  3. Department of Mathematics, Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa, Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, Mersin 10, Turkey

    Professor Rashad Rafik Aliev

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Aliev, R.A., Fazlollahi, B., Aliev, R.R. (2004). Soft Computing in Electronic Business. In: Soft Computing and its Applications in Business and Economics. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 157. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44429-9_9

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