• DocumentCode
    1416429
  • Title

    Using Social Media to Predict Future Events with Agent-Based Markets

  • Author

    Bothos, Efthimios ; Apostolou, Dimitris ; Mentzas, Gregoris

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • Volume
    25
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    50
  • Lastpage
    58
  • Abstract
    Agents can exploit user-generated content available in social media by extracting user sentiments and assessments and using them to make informed transactions on the market.
  • Keywords
    Internet; multi-agent systems; social networking (online); agent based markets; future event prediction; informed transactions; social media; user generated content; user sentiments extraction; Awards activities; Contracts; Media; Motion pictures; Predictive models; Twitter; User-generated content; Academy Awards; Intelligent systems; decision support; intelligent agents; prediction markets;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Intelligent Systems, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1541-1672
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MIS.2010.152
  • Filename
    5678586