Smart Brokering for Household Items

Households will normally feel very annoyed when they want to buy a product but the budget is limited. Thus, a wise consumer will carry out product price survey before purchasing so that he or she is able to buy the desired product within the required budget. This project proposes the development...

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Main Author: Lee , Jia Zhen
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: IRC 2015
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Online Access:http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15897/1/Lee%20Jia%20Zhen_16016.pdf
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
Language: English
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Summary:Households will normally feel very annoyed when they want to buy a product but the budget is limited. Thus, a wise consumer will carry out product price survey before purchasing so that he or she is able to buy the desired product within the required budget. This project proposes the development of a Smart Brokering System for product price survey activity so that to ease consumers in their daily routine in selecting the household products. In this project, a price comparison system for household products will be developed to display all possible product prices from several grocery stores based on the budget preferences set by the consumers. In particular, the proposed system will be developed by using a full-text search library, which the data is already been populated in the database to implement the data retrieval process. This system is written in C# and ASP .Net. Apart from that, system testing is carried out by the author to test the algorithm so that the functions are working smoothly and perfectly. Acceptance tests has been done by the potential consumers to make sure the end product meet the users’ requirement. As a result, the expected outcome of this research is to improve the easiness of shopping and the efficiency of price surveying activity by the consumers