Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce II: Towards Next-Generation Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Systems

ISBN-13: 9783540677734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 242 str.

Alexandros Moukas; Carles Sierra; Fredrick Ygge

Opis

This book evaluates the challenges that agent-based electronic commerce faces as well as the opportunities that agent technology offers for conducting business electronically.
This book originates from a workshop held during IJCAI 1999. Besides revised refereed workshop papers, several contributions by leading experts were solicited in order to provide complete and competent coverage of all relevant aspects.

Spis treści

Shopbots and Pricebots.- Civil Agent Societies: Tools for Inventing Open Agent-Mediated Electronic Marketplaces.- Legal Issues for Personalised Advertising on Internet: The AIMedia Case Study.- Energy Resellers - An Endangered Species?.- Modeling Supply Chain Formation in Multiagent Systems.- Jangter: A Novel Agent-Based Electronic Marketplace.- Bid Selection Strategies for Multi-agent Contracting in the Presence of Scheduling Constraints.- Resource Allocation Using Sequential Auctions.- Profit-Driven Matching in E-Marketplaces: Trading Composable Commodities.- Two-Sided Learning in an Agent Economy for Information Bundles.- Optimal Auction Design for Agents with Hard Valuation Problems.- Auctions without Auctioneers: Distributed Auction Protocols.