A key to an optimal assortment of goods and pricing of individual items in a store is the knowledge about potential customer’s
behaviour. In this paper we present the simulation of individual customers based on a multiagent system which models the important
elements and external influences as single agents. An agent can be member of several agent groups which are represented as
holons. We model each individual customer as an agent which behaves according the customer’s individual preferences. These
preferences are extracted from real world data, such as customer cards, sales data and interviews. The customer’s shopping
behaviour is represented in behaviour networks (Bayesian nets) which are stored in the customer agents’ knowledge bases. The
behaviour of a representative group of customers induces the overall sales figures, which support decisions what to sell at
which price. The presented concepts are based on ideas of Joachim Hertel from DACOS and Jörg Siekmann from the DFKI. They
are implemented as a prototype, which provides, after further evaluation, the basis for a new and final system to be used
by retailers.