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Born to trade: A genetically evolved keyword bidder for sponsored search

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Born to trade: A genetically evolved keyword bidder for sponsored search
In sponsored search auctions, advertisers choose a set of keywords based on products they wish to market. They bid for advertising slots that will be displayed on the search results page when a user submits a query containing the keywords that the advertiser selected. Deciding how much to bid is a real challenge: if the bid is too low with respect to the bids of other advertisers, the ad might not get displayed in a favorable position; a bid that is too high on the other hand might not be profitable either, since the attracted number of conversions might not be enough to compensate for the high cost per click. In this paper we propose a genetically evolved keyword bidding strategy that decides how much to bid for each query based on historical data such as the position obtained on the previous day. In light of the fact that our approach does not implement any particular expert knowledge on keyword auctions, it did remarkably well in the Trading Agent Competition at IJCAI2009.
Michael Munsey, Jonathan Veilleux, Sindhura Bikkan
Added 08 Nov 2010
Updated 08 Nov 2010
Type Conference
Year 2010
Where CEC
Authors Michael Munsey, Jonathan Veilleux, Sindhura Bikkani, Ankur Teredesai, Martine De Cock
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