Agent-mediated electronic commerce V
Subtitle: designing mechanisms and systems : AAMAS 2003 Workshop, AMEC 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 15, 2003 : revised selected papers
By: Peyman Faratin ... [et al.] (eds.).
Contributors: Faratin, Peyman.; International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (2nd : 2003 : Melbourne, Australia)
Series: Lecture notes in computer science -- 3048. -- Lecture notes in artificial intelligence; Lecture notes in computer science -- 3048.; Lecture notes in computer science
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Electronic commerce -- Congresses; Intelligent agents (Computer software) -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Agent mediated electronic commerce V.; Agent-mediated electronic commerce five.; Agent-mediated electronic commerce 5.; AAMAS 2003 Workshop.; AMEC 2003.
Description: The design of intelligent trading agents, mechanisms, and systems has received growingattentionin the agentsandmultiagentsystemscommunities in ane?ort to address the increasing costs of search, transaction, and coordination which follows from the increasing number of Internet-enabled distributed electronic markets. Furthermore, new technologies and supporting business models are - sulting in a growing volume of open and horizontally integrated markets for trading of an increasingly diverse set of goods and services. However, growth of technologies for such markets requires innovative solutions to a diverseset of - isting and novel technical problems which we are only beginning to understand. Speci?cally, distributed markets present not only traditional economic problems but also introduce novel and challenging computational issues that are not r- resentedin the classiceconomicsolution concepts.Novelto agent-mediatedel- tronic commerce are considerations involving the computation substrates of the agents and the electronic institutions that supports, and trading, and also the human-agent interface (involving issues of preference elicitation, representation, reasoningandtrust).Insum,agent-mediatedelectronictraderequiresprincipled design(fromeconomicsandgametheory)andincorporatesnovelcombinationsof theories from di?erent disciplines such as computer science, operations research, arti?cial intelligence and distributed systems. The collection of above-mentioned issues and challenges has crystallized into a new, consolidated agent research ?eld that has become a focus of attention in recent years: agent-mediated electronic commerce.
Notes: "Papers in this volume originate from the 5th Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC V) held in conjunction with the 2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) in July 2003"--Pref.

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