Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce III: Current Issues in Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Systems

ISBN-13: 9783540417491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 196 str.

Frank Dignum;Ulises Cortes

Opis

This book presents 12 revised full papers on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: seven papers were initially presented at the AMEC 2000 Workshop and the five others were solicited by the volume editors in order to achieve competent coverage of all relevant topics.
The book is divided in topical sections on electronic negotiation models for agents, formal issues for agents operating on electronic market places, virtual trading institutions and platforms, and trading strategies for interrelated transactions.

Spis treści

Electronic Negotiation Models for Agents.- Bilateral Negotiation Model for Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce.- Multi-attribute Utility Theoretic Negotiation for Electronic Commerce.- On Constraint-Based Reasoning in e-Negotiation Agents.- Formal Issues for Agents that Operate on Electronic Market Places.- Integrating Interaction Protocols and Internet Protocols for Agent-Mediated E-Commerce.- Issues in the Design of Negotiation Protocols for Logic-Based Agent Communication Languages.- A Formal Description of a Practical Agent for E-Commerce.- Virtual Trading Institutions and Platforms.- A Platform for Electronic Commerce with Adaptive Agents.- Trading without Explicit Ontologies.- Customer Coalitions in Electronic Markets.- Trading Strategies for Interrelated Transactions.- Algorithm Design for Agents which Participate in Multiple Simultaneous Auctions.- Agent Strategies on DPB Auction Tournaments.- To Bid or Not To Bid Agent Strategies in Electronic Auction Games.