Implementation of Price Watcher and URLs Updater Agents for E-commerce based Mobile Phone Shop

Abstract

This system is designed to help the users for retrieving the product and price information of the competitors’ website and monitor updated information in the competitors’ website for the most frequently interested product items of phone store web site. There are intelligence information agents in the system, namely, Price Watcher Agent, URLs Updater Agent, and Online Phone Store Agent. Price Watcher Agent is used to retrieve competitors' product prices over the World Wide Web, for the purpose of price comparison at an e-commerce retail shop. It collects competitors' price information. Price Watcher Agent is used Keyword-Patten-Sample based mining algorithm (KPS) to extract price values from other competitors' web sites. Competitors' URLs Updater Agent is the information collection tool that assists the shopper to spy on the competitors' website address (URLs) for the product information of competitors’ web pages. Online Phone Store Agent is comparison between phone store product price and other competitors' product price.