Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce II

1. Front Matter

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2. Shopbots and Pricebots

   • Amy R. Greenwald, Jeffrey O. Kephart

   Pages 1-23

3. Civil Agent Societies: Tools for Inventing Open Agent-Mediated Electronic Marketplaces

   • Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Mark Klein

   Pages 24-39

4. Legal Issues for Personalised Advertising on Internet: The AIMedia Case Study

   • Vania Conan, Marten Foss, Peter Lenda, Sophie Louveaux, Anne Salaün

   Pages 40-67

5. Energy Resellers - An Endangered Species?

   • Fredrik Ygge

   Pages 68-93

6. Modeling Supply Chain Formation in Multiagent Systems

   • William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman

   Pages 94-101

7. Jangter: A Novel Agent-Based Electronic Marketplace

   • Shim Yoon, JuYoung Yun, SooWoong Kim, Juneha Kim

   Pages 102-112

8. Bid Selection Strategies for Multi-agent Contracting in the Presence of Scheduling Constraints

   • John Collins, Rashmi Sundareswara, Maria Gini, Bamshad Mobasher

   Pages 113-130

9. Resource Allocation Using Sequential Auctions

   • Craig Boutilier, Moisés Goldszmidt, Claire Monteleoni, Bikash Sabata

   Pages 131-152

10. Profit-Driven Matching in E-Marketplaces: Trading Composable Commodities

    • Apostolos Dailianas, Jakka Sairamesh, Vibby Gottemukkala, Anant Jhingran

    Pages 153-179

11. Two-Sided Learning in an Agent Economy for Information Bundles

    • Jeffrey O. Kephart, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason

    Pages 180-205

12. Optimal Auction Design for Agents with Hard Valuation Problems

    • David C. Parkes

    Pages 206-219

13. Auctions without Auctioneers: Distributed Auction Protocols

    • Marc Esteva, Julian Padget

    Pages 220-238

14. Back Matter

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The Internet is spawning many new markets and electronic commerce is changing many market conventions. Not only are old commercial practices being adapted to the new conditions of immediacy brought forth by the global networks, but new products and services, as well as new practices, are beginning to appear. There is already ample evidence that agent-based technologies will be crucial for these - velopments. However many theoretical, technological, sociological, and legal - pects will need to be addressed before such opportunities become a significant reality. In addition to streamlining traditional transactions, agents enable new types of transactions. For example, the elusive one-to-one marketing becomes more of a - ality when consumer agents capture and share (or sell) consumer demographics. Prices and other transaction dimensions need no longer to be fixed; selling agents can dynamically tailor merchant offerings to each consumer. Economies of scale become feasible in new markets when agents negotiate on special arbitration c- tracts. Dynamic business relationships will give rise to more competitively agile organizations. It is these new opportunities combined with substantial reduction in transaction costs that will revolutionize electronic commerce.

• Electronic Commerce
• Intelligent Agents
• Internet agents
• Origin
• agent coordination
• agent mediated business
• agent negotiation
• artificial intelligence
• autonomous agents
• electronic auctions
• electronic marketplaces
• mobile agents
• multi-agent systems

• MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, USA

  Alexandros Moukas

• Enersearch AB and Computing Science Department, Information Technology Uppsala University, Chalmers Science Park, Gothenburg, Sweden

  Fredrik Ygge

• Institut d’Investigació en Intel·ligència Artificial, Barcelona, Spain

  Carles Sierra

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