A Hierarchical Bayesian Network-Based Approach to Keyword Auction

Prosperity of the online keyword auctions greatly facilitates the penetration of search-engine marketing in various industries. However, the current operation rules of the search engine make it very difficult for those inexperienced advertisers to make sound bids without the support of powerful tool...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on engineering management Jg. 62; H. 2; S. 217 - 225
1. Verfasser: Hou, Liwen
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York IEEE 01.05.2015
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Schlagworte:
Adaptation models
Auctions
Back-propagation (BP) artificial neural network (ANN)
Bayes methods
Bayesian analysis
Google
hierarchical Bayesian network (BN)
keyword auctions
Keywords
Market strategy
Neural networks
parameter learning
Portfolios
Prediction algorithms
Predictive models
Rates of return
return on investment (ROI) prediction
Search engines
Studies
Back-propagation (BP) artificial neural network (ANN)
return on investment (ROI) prediction
hierarchical Bayesian network (BN)
parameter learning
keyword auctions
ISSN:0018-9391, 1558-0040
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Zusammenfassung:Prosperity of the online keyword auctions greatly facilitates the penetration of search-engine marketing in various industries. However, the current operation rules of the search engine make it very difficult for those inexperienced advertisers to make sound bids without the support of powerful tools. Therefore, many studies have been conducted to help advertisers understand such dynamic, infinite, and opaque auction situation, and obtain as good as possible bidding result. This paper, focusing on predicting the return on investment (ROI) of a keyword portfolio, develops a hierarchical Bayesian network (BN) model to forecast keyword auctions' performance. Few papers directly predict the ROI of a keyword portfolio. This approach effectively echoes advertisers' expectation for a keyword auction by choosing the right keywords and bids to achieve the desired outcome. The building blocks of the prediction model, such as bid and rank, are organized in a tree-shaped structure with a set of joint conditional probabilities. To infer the posterior probabilities of the predictors, a Bayesian parameter-learning algorithm is conducted after validating the network's structural relationships. The empirical study demonstrates that the prediction model is appropriate and effective for keyword auctions. Moreover, the proposed hierarchical BN model shows a higher accuracy than the popular prediction approach-the back-propagation artificial neural network.
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ISSN:0018-9391
1558-0040
DOI:10.1109/TEM.2015.2390772