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This paper describes MARI (Multi-Attribute Resource Intermediary), a project which proposes to improve online marketplaces, specifically those that involve the buying and selling of non-tangible goods and services. MARI is an intermediary architecture ...

We present a framework to study the microeconomic effects in a reputation brokered Agent mediated Knowledge Marketplace, when we introduce dynamic pricing algorithms. We study the market with computer simulations of multiagent interactions. In this ...

The Internet, with its speed, agility, scalability and wide reach characteristics, can be used to create a wide and open business market, able to offer efficiency to the process of buying and selling products, reducing transaction costs. However, most e-...

This paper presents the issues related to the different kinds of Broker Agents for electronic commerce. The specificity of electronic commerce of multimedia products and services is considered, proposing a classification of this kind of systems based on ...

This paper explores the use of information agents for partially automating some of the activities of information brokering in e-commerce. In this paper, the issue of matching buyers 'and sellers' profiles is viewed as a kind of connection problem. A ...

We develop a model of information processing and strategy choice for participants in a double auction. Sellers in this model form beliefs that an offer will be accepted by some buyer. Similarly, buyers form beliefs that a bid will be accepted. These ...

Real-time decision making for on-the-spot orders is considered using a novel distributed agent architecture. The order agents will have the ability to perform multi-stage negotiation using continuous double auction market-based model representing ...

Consider continuous negotiations where the goal is to obtain exactly one complete bundle of resources and there exists alternative bundles that solve the task. This paper presents a market-based model of this negotiation that does not require commitment ...

This paper discusses a new modality for speaker recognition - conversational biometrics - as a high security voice-based authentication method for E-commerce applications. By combining diverse simultaneous conversational technologies, high accuracy ...

Although electronic commerce is a relatively new concept, it has already become a normal aspect of our daily life. The software agent technology is also relatively new. In the area of electronic commerce, software agents could be used for example to ...

This paper describes and discusses the malicious agent issues in the agent-mediated electronic markets. We define the malicious agents as software agents that have malicious purpose. Malicious agents can do harm in various ways, such as attacking normal ...

Security issues related to the usage of mobile agents in performing operations to which their owners have to be bound, such as payments, are of utmost importance if this kind of agents are to be used in electronic commerce. If this binding is achieved ...

Because Internet trading provides customers with more convenient and more money-saving services than conventional trading, it has seen explosive growth in recent years and will have a major impact in shaping future markets. Certainly, it will be very ...

Recently, electronic commerce has become the focus of Information Technology development. Many electronic payment protocols and systems have been launched onto the Internet, but most of them induce complex cryptography and authentication mechanisms that ...

M-commerce is a new area arising from the marriage of electronic commerce with emerging mobile and pervasive computing technology. The newness of this area--and the rapidness with which it is emerging--makes it diffcult to analyze the technological ...

Workflow technology is an important area of electronic commerce. The mobile agent paradigm offers a possible abstraction for flexible, adaptive, and dynamically extensible intra- and inter-organizational (even across the Internet) workflow systems. This ...

Federation is a self-organizing mechanism of socio-economic systems. Enterprise federation is an agile and self-organizing network of partner enterprises, which is capable of unifying two opposite ends in current societies and technologies, i.e. more ...

This paper designs an electronic commerce system that integrates conventional electronic commerce services with contemporary WWW advantages, such as comprehensive coverage and agents for information search and selection. We use a user-centered approach ...

This paper outlines an experiment set out to determine the usefulness of a Speech Technology Interface Agent for E-Commerce transaction tasks. There are a limited number of speech technology agents in use on the Web at present and there are none used in ...