Abstract: In response to receipt of a best-deal request specifying requested feature levels for products, feature sufficiency for each of said products is evaluated. Each feature sufficiency indicates whether or not a given product meets a respective requested feature level. Normalized prices are determined for the products. Products are sorted according to feature sufficiency and normalized prices for the respective products. A best-deal list is generated with product identifiers for the products arranged in the sorted order.

Abstract: A system and method for reputation-based service valuation are provided herein. The method includes receiving, within a computing system, subjective evaluation criteria relating to a service from any of a number of users of the service. The method also includes scaling the subjective evaluation criteria based on a reputation of each of the users to produce reputation-based subjective evaluation criteria. The method further includes generating a service valuation for the service based on the reputation-based subjective evaluation criteria.