Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce III

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

   PDF

2. Electronic Negotiation Models for Agents

   1. Bilateral Negotiation Model for Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce

      • Gustavo E. de Paula, Francisco S. Ramos, Geber L. Ramalho

      Pages 1-14

   2. Multi-attribute Utility Theoretic Negotiation for Electronic Commerce

      • Mihai Barbuceanu, Wai-Kau Lo

      Pages 15-30

   3. On Constraint-Based Reasoning in e-Negotiation Agents

      • Ryszard Kowalczyk, Van Bui

      Pages 31-46

3. Formal Issues for Agents that Operate on Electronic Market Places

   1. Integrating Interaction Protocols and Internet Protocols for Agent-Mediated E-Commerce

      • Alexander Artikis, Frank Guerin, Jeremy Pitt

      Pages 47-69

   2. Issues in the Design of Negotiation Protocols for Logic-Based Agent Communication Languages

      • Michael Wooldridge, Simon Parsons

      Pages 70-83

   3. A Formal Description of a Practical Agent for E-Commerce

      • Matteo Pradella, Marco Colombetti

      Pages 84-95

4. Virtual Trading Institutions and Platforms

   1. A Platform for Electronic Commerce with Adaptive Agents

      • Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio Oliveira

      Pages 96-107

   2. Trading without Explicit Ontologies

      • Michael Schroeder, Julie McCann, Daniel Haynes

      Pages 108-120

   3. Customer Coalitions in Electronic Markets

      • Maksim Tsvetovat, Katia Sycara, Yian Chen, James Ying

      Pages 121-138

5. Trading Strategies for Interrelated Transactions

   1. Algorithm Design for Agents which Participate in Multiple Simultaneous Auctions

      • Chris Preist, Claudio Bartolini, Ivan Phillips

      Pages 139-154

   2. Agent Strategies on DPB Auction Tournaments

      • Javier Béjar, Ulises Cortés

      Pages 155-172

   3. To Bid or Not To Bid Agent Strategies in Electronic Auction Games

      • Javier Béjar, Juan A.

      Pages 173-191

6. Back Matter

   Pages 193-193

   PDF

In this book we present a collection of papers around the topic of Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Most of the papers originate from the third workshop on Agent{Mediated Electronic Commerce held in conjunction with the Autonomous Agents conference in June 2000. After two previous workshops, one during the Autonomous Agents conference in 1998 in Minneapolis and the second one in conjunction with the International Joint Conference On Arti cial Intelligence in 1999, this workshop continued the tradition of the previous ones by setting the scene for the assessment of the challenges that Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce faces as well as the opportunities it creates. By focusing on age- mediated interactions, specialists from di erent disciplines were brought together who contribute theoretical and application perspectives in the narrowly focused topic that nevertheless involves wide ranging concerns such as: agent architec- res, institutionalization, economic theory, modeling, legal frameworks and policy guidelines. The main topics for the workshop were: { Electronic negotiation models for agents { Formal issues for agents that operate in electronic market places { Virtual trading institutions and platforms { Trading strategies for interrelated transactions (respectively auctions) The workshop received 12 submissions of which 7 were selected for publication in this volume. Although the number of submissions was less then expected for an important area like agent-mediated electronic commerce there is no reason to worry that this area does not get enough attention from the agent community.

• Agent Architectures
• Agent-Based Systems
• Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce
• Agent-Mediated Negotiation
• Electronic Commerce
• Electronic Market
• Electronic Market Places
• Internet Agents
• Internet Auctions
• Virtual Trading Platforms
• agents

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

  Frank Dignum

• Software Department, Artificial Intelligence Section, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

  Ulises Cortés

Policies and ethics