An agent for optimizing airline ticket purchasing

William Groves; Maria L Gini

An agent for optimizing airline ticket purchasing

William Groves, Maria L Gini

Computer Science and Engineering

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

4 Scopus citations

Abstract

Buying airline tickets is an ubiquitous task in which it is difficult for humans to minimize cost due to insufficient information. Even with historical data available for inspection (a recent addition to some travel reservation websites), it is difficult to assess how purchase timing translates into changes in expected cost. To address this problem, we introduce an agent which is able to optimize purchase timing on behalf of customers. We provide results that demonstrate the method can perform much closer to the optimal purchase policy than existing decision theoretic approaches for this domain.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013
Publisher	International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
Pages	1341-1342
Number of pages	2
Volume	2
State	Published - Jan 1 2013
Event	12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013 - Saint Paul, MN, United States Duration: May 6 2013 → May 10 2013

Other

Other	12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013
Country	United States
City	Saint Paul, MN
Period	5/6/13 → 5/10/13

Keywords

Airline ticket prices
Feature selection
PLS regression

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An agent for optimizing airline ticket purchasing. / Groves, William; Gini, Maria L.

12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013. Vol. 2 International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS), 2013. p. 1341-1342.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Groves, W & Gini, ML 2013, An agent for optimizing airline ticket purchasing. in 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013. vol. 2, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS), pp. 1341-1342, 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013, Saint Paul, MN, United States, 5/6/13.

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