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A Semantic Marketplace of Negotiating Agents

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Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC 2005)

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Achieving interoperability and automation in job execution is of utmost importance for next generation e-Commerce applications. This paper proposes a design that integrates three prominent technologies: intelligent software agents, peer-to-peer networking and the Semantic Web. SeMPHoNIA is an architecture for an agent-based marketplace, utilizing knowledge from RDF product repositories, in an open peer-to-peer environment. The platform defines the basic stages of the process of e-trading, facilitating users in closing deals in automated manner. The implementation of our approach is demonstrated in the context of auction scenarios. A performance evaluation of the system is also presented.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, FO.R.T.H., Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, GR 71110, Heraklion, Greece

    Theodore Patkos & Dimitris Plexousakis

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  1. Future Networking Lab, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe,, Germany

    Zoran Despotovic

  2. Dept. of Information and Computer Science, University of Hawaii, 1680 East-West Road, POST 309, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Sam Joseph

  3. Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento, 2, I-40126, Bologna, (BO), Italy

    Claudio Sartori

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Patkos, T., Plexousakis, D. (2006). A Semantic Marketplace of Negotiating Agents. In: Despotovic, Z., Joseph, S., Sartori, C. (eds) Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing. AP2PC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11925941_8

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