E Commerce Agents : Marketplace Solutions Security Issues and Supply and Demand Among the many changes brought by the Internet is the emergence of electronic commerce over the Web. E commerce activities such as the online exchange of information services and products are opening up completely new opportunities for business at new levels of productivity and profitability. In parallel with the emergence of e commerce intelligent software agents as entities capable of independent action in open unpredictable environments have matured into a promising new technology. Quite naturally e commerce agents hold great promise for exploiting the Internets full potential as an electronic marketplace. The 20 coherently written chapters in this book by leading researchers and professionals present the state of the art in agent mediated e commerce. Researchers professionals and advanced students interested in e commerce or agent technology will find this book an indispensable source of information and reference