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Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV. Designing Mechanisms and Systems

AAMAS 2002 Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, Bologna, Italy, July 16, 2002, Revised Papers

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2531)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): AMEC: International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce

Conference proceedings info: AMEC 2002.

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
  2. Auctions

    1. Differential-Revelation VCG Mechanisms for Combinatorial Auctions

      • Wolfram Conen, Tuomas Sandholm
      Pages 34-51
    2. An English Auction Protocol for Multi-attribute Items

      • Esther David, Rina Azoulay-Schwartz, Sarit Kraus
      Pages 52-68
    3. Effectiveness of Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Auctions

      • Benoît Hudson, Tuomas Sandholm
      Pages 69-86
    4. Co-evolutionary Auction Mechanism Design: A Preliminary Report

      • Steve Phelps, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons, Elizabeth Sklar
      Pages 123-142
    5. ATTac-2001: A Learning, Autonomous Bidding Agent

      • Peter Stone, Robert E. Schapire, János A. Csirik, Michael L. Littman, David McAllester
      Pages 143-160
  3. Negotiation

    1. A Software Infrastructure for Negotiation within Inter-organisational Alliances

      • Mihnea Bratu, Jean-Marc Andreoli, Olivier Boissier, Stefania Castellani
      Pages 161-179
    2. The Influence of Information on Negotiation Equilibrium

      • Shaheen S. Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings
      Pages 180-193
    3. Automated Negotiation in Many-to-Many Markets for Imperfectly Substitutable Goods

      • Chris Preist, Carlos Mérida-Campos
      Pages 203-218
    4. An Ontology Based Approach to Automated Negotiation

      • Valentina Tamma, Michael Wooldridge, Ian Blacoe, Ian Dickinson
      Pages 219-237
  4. Markets

    1. Guaranteeing Properties for E-commerce Systems

      • Frank Guerin, Jeremy Pitt
      Pages 253-272
    2. An Extensible Agent Architecture for a Competitive Market-Based Allocation of Consumer Attention Space

      • Pieter Jan’ t Hoen, Sander Bohte, Enrico Gerding, Han La Poutré
      Pages 273-288
    3. Self-Enforcing Strategic Demand Reduction

      • Paul S.A. Reitsma, Peter Stone, János A. Csirik, Michael L. Littman
      Pages 289-306
    4. Skeletal Jade Components for the Construction of Institutions

      • Oliver Vickers, Julian Padget
      Pages 307-324

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About this book

 This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, AMEC 2002, held in Bologna, Italy in July 2002 during the AAMAS 2002 conference.

The 20 revised full papers presented together with an introductory survey by the volume editors were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The book gives a unique overview of the state of the art of designing mechanisms and systems for agent-mediated e-commerce- The papers are organized in topical sections on electronic auctions, negotiations, and electronic markets.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bath, Bath, UK

    Julian Padget

  • IBM - Haifa Research Labs, Haifa University, Israel

    Onn Shehory

  • Maxwell Dworkin Lab, Cambridge, USA

    David Parkes

  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

    Norman Sadeh

  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Harthorne, USA

    William E. Walsh

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