Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce Vi: Theories For And Engineering Of Distributed Mechanisms And Systems, Aamas 2004 Workshop, Amec 2004, New York, ... Papers (lecture Notes In Computer Science)
by Peyman Faratin /
2006 / English / PDF
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The design of intelligent trading agents, mechanisms, and systems
has received growing atttention in the agents and multiagent
systems communities in an e?ort to address the increasing costs of
search, transaction, and coordination which follows from the
increasing number of Internet-enabled distibuted el- tronic
markets. Furthermore, new technologies and supporting business
models
areresultinginagrowingvolumeofopenandhorizontallyintegratedmarketsfor
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 pr- lems but also introduce novel and challenging
computational issues that are not represented in the classic
economic solution concepts. Novel to agent-mediated electronic
commerce are considerations involving the computation substrates of
the agents and the electronic institutions that supports trading,
and also the human-agentinterface (involving issues of preference
elicitation, representation, reasoning, and trust). In sum,
agent-mediated electronic trade requires prin- pled design (from
economics and game theory) and incorporates novel combi- tions of
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.
The design of intelligent trading agents, mechanisms, and systems
has received growing atttention in the agents and multiagent
systems communities in an e?ort to address the increasing costs of
search, transaction, and coordination which follows from the
increasing number of Internet-enabled distibuted el- tronic
markets. Furthermore, new technologies and supporting business
models
areresultinginagrowingvolumeofopenandhorizontallyintegratedmarketsfor
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 pr- lems but also introduce novel and challenging
computational issues that are not represented in the classic
economic solution concepts. Novel to agent-mediated electronic
commerce are considerations involving the computation substrates of
the agents and the electronic institutions that supports trading,
and also the human-agentinterface (involving issues of preference
elicitation, representation, reasoning, and trust). In sum,
agent-mediated electronic trade requires prin- pled design (from
economics and game theory) and incorporates novel combi- tions of
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.
