Authors:
            
                    Alexis Lazanas
                    
                        
                    
                    ; 
                
                    Nikos Karacapilidis
                    
                        
                    
                     and
                
                    Vagelis Katsoulis
                    
                        
                    
                    
                
        
        
            Affiliation:
            
                    
                        
                    
                    Industrial Management Lab, MEAD, University of Patras, Greece
                
        
        
        
        
        
             Keyword(s):
            Hybrid recommender Systems, web services, knowledge-based recommendation, intelligent agents.
        
        
            
                Related
                    Ontology
                    Subjects/Areas/Topics:
                
                        Agent-Oriented Programming
                    ; 
                        Agents
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                        Artificial Intelligence
                    ; 
                        B2B, B2C and C2C
                    ; 
                        B2C/B2B Considerations
                    ; 
                        Business and Social Applications
                    ; 
                        Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
                    ; 
                        e-Business
                    ; 
                        Enterprise Information Systems
                    ; 
                        Society, e-Business and e-Government
                    ; 
                        Software Agents and Internet Computing
                    ; 
                        Web Information Systems and Technologies
                    
            
        
        
            
                Abstract: 
                Diverse recommendation techniques have been already proposed and encapsulated into several e-business systems aiming to perform a more accurate evaluation of the existing alternatives and accordingly augment the assistance provided to the users involved. Extending previous work, this paper focuses on the development of an agent-invoked web service that will be responsible for the coordination of the system’s recommendation module. The specific service will be invoked through a correspondent software agent that has been already implemented in our system’s platform and will perform the tasks of recommendation policy synthesis, as well as the formulation of the appropriate knowledge rules.