Information technology of searching comparative companies for the business valuation using intelligent agents

The paper deals with developing information technology of data processing for solving business valuation problems based on the selection of comparative companies. An emerging IT company or a startup are taken as the object of study, for which traditional valuation methods are not apt. In terms of the research task there has been introduced the concept of a precedent — a company for which the search of analogues is being realized. The basic concepts of multi-agent systems are used. Four types of intelligent agents are presented that provide the implementation of the elements of the end-to-end technology: information search of objects with specified properties, intelligent processing of user requests, monitoring of objects, data mining. Stage sequence of the distributed decision-making technology has been considered. There are given metric and non-metric information processing mechanisms about analogues using metrics and proximity measures. The problem of non-metric information processing has been formulated. The tasks of data mining analysis have been defined, which are vital for monitoring the IT-companies in order to evaluate the business. The presented conclusions are summarized in the form of a complex information technology of data processing.