A configurable auction server for human and software agents

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The roles of agents in B2B e-commerce are discussed through the business-to-business transaction model that identifies agents as being employed in partnership formation, brokering, and negotiation. Having identified the roles for agents in B2C and B2B e-commerce, some of the key underpinning technologies of this vision are highlighted.

Finally, we conclude by discussing the future directions and potential impediments to the wide-scale adoption of agent-mediated e-commerce. Index Terms—Agent-mediated electronic commerce, intelligent agents. The Trading Agent Competition was the second in a series of events aiming to shed light on research issues in automating trading strategies.

Based on a challenging market scenario in the domain of travel shopping, the competition presents agents with difficult issues in bidding strategy, market Abstract - Cited by 10 self - Add to MetaCart The Trading Agent Competition was the second in a series of events aiming to shed light on research issues in automating trading strategies.

Based on a challenging market scenario in the domain of travel shopping, the competition presents agents with difficult issues in bidding strategy, market prediction, and resource allocation. Entrants in demonstrated substantial progress over the prior year, with the overall level of competence exhibited suggesting that trading in online markets is a viable domain for highly autonomous agents.

Kephart, James E. Hanson, Amy R. Greenwald - Computer Networks , We envision a future in which the global economy and the Internet will merge and evolve together into an information economy bustling with billions of economically motivated software agents that exchange information goods and services with humans and other agents.

Economic software agents will d Abstract - Cited by 92 2 self - Add to MetaCart We envision a future in which the global economy and the Internet will merge and evolve together into an information economy bustling with billions of economically motivated software agents that exchange information goods and services with humans and other agents. Economic software agents will differ in important ways from their human counterparts, and these differences may have significant beneficial or harmful effects upon the global economy.

It is therefore important to consider the economic incentives and behaviors of economic software agents, and to use every available means to anticipate their collective interactions. We survey research conducted by the Information Economies group at IBM Research aimed at understanding collective interactions among agents that dynamically price information goods or services. In particular, we study the potential impact of widespread shopbot usage on prices, the price dynamics that may ensue from various mixtures of automated pricing Information agent technology for the Internet: a survey by Matthias Klusch - Data and Knowledge engineering.

The vast amount of heterogeneous information sources available in the Internet demands advanced solutions for acquiring, mediating, and maintaining relevant information for the common user.

Intelligent information agents are autonomous computational software entities that are especially meant for Abstract - Cited by 74 4 self - Add to MetaCart The vast amount of heterogeneous information sources available in the Internet demands advanced solutions for acquiring, mediating, and maintaining relevant information for the common user.

Intelligent information agents are autonomous computational software entities that are especially meant for 1 to provide a pro-active resource discovery, 2 to resolve information impedance of information consumers and providers, and 3 to offer value-added information services and products. These agents are supposed to cope with the difficulties associated with the information overload of the user preferably just in time.

Based on a systematic classification of intelligent information agents this paper presents an overview of basic key enabling technologies needed to build such agents, and respective examples of information agent systems currently deployed on the Internet.

This paper presents a new combinatorial auction protocol LDS protocol that is robust against false-name bids. Internet auctions have become an integral part of Electronic Commerce EC and a promising field for applying agent and Artificial Intelligence technologies.

Wellman and William E. Market mechanisms, such as auctions, will likely represent a common interaction medium for agents on the Internet. The Michigan Internet AuctionBot is a exible, scalable, and robust auction server that supports both software and human agents. The server manages many simultaneous auctions by separating the interface from the core auction procedures.

This design provides a responsiveinterface and tolerates system and network disruptions, but necessitates careful timekeeping procedures to ensure temporal accuracy. Wellman and William E. Market mechanisms, such as auctions, will likely represent a common interaction medium for agents on the Internet. The Michigan Internet AuctionBot is a flexible, scalable, and robust auction server that supports both software and human agents. The server manages many simultaneous auctions by separating the interface from the core auction procedures.