Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. AMEC: Scientific and Technological Roadmap

   1. Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Scientific and Technological Roadmap

      • Carles Sierra, Frank Dignum

      Pages 1-18

3. Negotiation

   1. A Classification Scheme for Negotiation in Electronic Commerce

      • Alessio R. Lomuscio, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings

      Pages 19-33

   2. Designing and Testing Negotiation Protocols for Electronic Commerce Applications

      • Jean-Luc Koning

      Pages 34-60

   3. Specifying the Processes and States of Negotiation

      • Shamimabi Paurobally, 1Jim Cunningham

      Pages 61-77

   4. Agents Advanced Features for Negotiation in Electronic Commerce and Virtual Organisations Formation Process

      • Eugénio Oliveira, Ana Rocha

      Pages 78-97

4. Markets

   1. Agents, Markets, Institutions, and Protocols

      • Frank Dignum

      Pages 98-114

   2. A Model for an Electronic Market Place

      • Maria Viamonte, Carlos Ramos

      Pages 115-125

   3. On the Formal Specification of Electronic Institutions

      • Marc Esteva, Juan-Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra, Pere Garcia, Josep L. Arcos

      Pages 126-147

   4. Towards a Flexible Trading Process over the Internet

      • Michael Vetter, Stefan Pitsch

      Pages 148-162

5. Preferences

   1. Modeling User Preferences and Mediating Agents in Electronic Commerce

      • Mehdi Dastani, Nico Jacobs, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur

      Pages 163-193

   2. Agent Technologies for the Development of Adaptive Web Stores

      • Liliana Ardissono, Anna Goy, Giovanna Petrone, Marino Segnan, Luca Console, Leonardo Lesmo et al.

      Pages 194-213

   3. Constraint Satisfaction for Modelling Scalable Electronic Catalogs

      • Marc Torrens, Boi Faltings

      Pages 214-228

6. Security

   1. Encrypting Java Archives and Its Application to Mobile Agent Security

      • Volker Roth, Vania Conan

      Pages 229-239

7. Back Matter

   Pages 241-241

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It is now no longer necessary to argue the importance of agent technology. Be- des numerous conferences and workshops on speci c aspects of agent technology there are also many companies that are exploring its exploitation possibilities. In the light of these developments and in order to foster the transfer of agent technology from research labs to business, the EU has funded a \network of exc- lence" devoted to agent technology. This network of excellence, called AgentLink (http://www. agentlink. org/), aims at bringing together research groups from d- ferent countries and industrial developers. The ultimate goal is to create synergy among the di erent projects and groups to improve the competence of European industry and the excellence of academia. In order to achieve this goal, Agent- Link organises educational activities (summer schools), builds agent-related - terature repositories, and facilitates collaboration between member nodes. One of the main activities related to the last point are the regular meetings of \S- cial Interest Groups" (SIGs). At this moment six SIGs are functioning, focusing on topics ranging from agent based social simulation to intelligent agents for telecommunications applications and telematics. The current book combines two results from the activities of the SIG on \Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce". This SIG gathers the main research groups and industrial partners interested in the use of agent technology in el- tronic commerce. First and foremost the book contains a roadmap of research and current technological developments in the area of agent-mediated electronic commerce.

• Agent Coordination
• Agent Mediated Business
• Agent Mediated Negotiation
• Constraint Satisfaction
• Electronic Auctions
• Electronic Commerce
• Electronic Marketplaces
• Intelligent Agents
• Internet
• Internet Agents
• Web
• agents
• classification
• modeling
• security

• Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Frank Dignum

• IIIA, CSIC Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain

  Carles Sierra

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