This paper surveys the state of the art of agent-mediated electronic commerce (e-
commerce), especially in business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce and business-to …

Increasingly, many systems are being conceptualized, designed, and implemented as
marketplaces in which autonomous software entities (agents) trade services. These services …

The trend towards renewable, decentralized, and highly fluctuating energy suppliers (eg
photovoltaic, wind power, CHP) introduces a tremendous burden on the stability of future …

The First Trading Agent Competition (TAC) was held from June 22 to July 8, 2000. TAC was
designed to create a benchmark problem in the complex domain of e-marketplaces and to …

The last decade has seen a shift in emphasis from centralised to decentralised systems to
meet the demanding coordination requirements of today's complex computer systems. In …

An argumentation based negotiation model is supported by information theory.
Argumentative dialogues change the models of agents with respect to ongoing …

Background. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in the UK, yet only
50% of CHD patients receive appropriate secondary prevention. Objectives. To explore GP …

We present a framework for defining trading scenarios based on fish market auctions. In
these scenarios, trading (buyer and seller) heterogeneous (human and software) agents of …

Die Technologie der Software-Agenten entzündet seit fast 10 Jahren die Phantasie der
Informatiker und derjenigen, die sich mit Anwendungen für Informationstechnologien …

The increasing number of online auctions poses a big challenge to e-consumers, especially
to those who are actively looking for good deals. In this paper, we present the design of an …