Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce III

"This book presents 12 revised full papers on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: seven papers were initially presented at the AMEC 2000 Workshop and the five others were solicited by the volume editors in order to achieve competent coverage of all relevant topics.
The book is divided in topical sections on electronic negotiation models for agents, formal issues for agents operating on electronic market places, virtual trading institutions and platforms, and trading strategies for interrelated transactions."

Section I: Electronic Negotiation Models for Agents
Bilateral Negotiation Model for Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce
Multi-attribute Utility Theoretic Negotiation for Electronic Commerce
On Constraint-Based Reasoning in e-Negotiation Agents
Section II: Formal Issues for Agents that Operate on Electronic Market Places
Integrating Interaction Protocols and Internet Protocols for Agent-Mediated E-Commerce
Issues in the Design of Negotiation Protocols for Logic-Based Agent Communication Languages
A Formal Description of a Practical Agent for E-Commerce
Section III: Virtual Trading Institutions and Platforms
A Platform for Electronic Commerce with Adaptive Agents
Trading without Explicit Ontologies
Customer Coalitions in Electronic Markets
Section IV: Trading Strategies for Interrelated Transactions
Algorithm Design for Agents which Participate in Multiple Simultaneous Auctions
Agent Strategies on DPB Auction Tournaments
To Bid or Not To Bid; Agent Strategies in Electronic Auction Games
Author Index