A Hybrid Method for Optimizing Shopping Lists Oriented to Retail Store Costumers
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Universidad de Burgos
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- Manuel Graña (coord.)
- José Manuel López-Guede (coord.)
- Oier Etxaniz (coord.)
- Álvaro Herrero (coord.)
- Héctor Quintián (coord.)
- Emilio Corchado (coord.)
Publisher: Springer Suiza
ISBN: 978-3-319-47364-2, 3-319-47364-6, 978-3-319-47363-5, 3-319-47363-8
Year of publication: 2017
Pages: 95-104
Congress: International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (9. 2016. San Sebastián)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
In the present day, one of the most common activities of everyday life is going to a supermarket or similar retail spaces to buy groceries. Many consumers organizations like The European Consumer Organization, advise buyers to prepare a “grocery list” in order to be ready for this activity. The present work proposes a system that helps to develop this activity in several ways: Firstly, it enables the user to create lists with different levels of abstraction: from concrete products to generic ones (or families of products). Secondly, the lists are collaborative and can be shared with other users. Finally, it automatically determines the best store to buy a given product using the proposed optimization algorithm. Furthermore, the optimization algorithm assigns a part of the list to each user balancing the cost that every user has to pay and choosing the cheapest supermarket where they have to buy.
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