Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce : The European Agentlink Perspective

by Dignum, Frank; Sierra, Carles

• ISBN13: 9783540416715
• ISBN10: 3540416714
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book documents the efforts undertaken by the EG AgentLink Special Interest Group on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, SIG AMEC.First and foremost, the book presents a roadmap of research and current technological development in the area of agent mediated electronic commerce. A particularly interesting part of this roadmap is the joint perspective on future developments.The book also contains a number of papers that fill in parts of this roadmap in a European context. Some of the papers present significant current R&D results while other papers indicate some clear directions for future research. The book is structured in topical sections on negotiation, markets, user preferences, and security.

Table of Contents

AMEC: Scientific and Technological Roadmap
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Scientific and Technological Roadmap	1	(18)
Carles Sierra
Frank Dignum
Section I: Negotiation
A Classification Scheme for Negotiation in Electronic Commerce	19	(15)
Alessio R. Lomuscio
Michael Wooldridge
Nicholas R. Jennings
Designing and Testing Negotiation Protocols for Electronic Commerce Applications	34	(27)
Jean-Luc Koning
Specifying the Processes and States of Negotiation	61	(17)
Shamimabi Paurobally
Jim Cunningham
Agents Advanced Features for Negotiation in Electronic Commerce and Virtual Organisations Formation Processes	78	(20)
Eugenio Oliveira
Ana Paula Rocha
Section II: Markets
Agents, Markets, Institutions, and Protocols	98	(17)
Frank Dignum
A Model for an Electronic Market Place	115	(11)
Maria Joao Viamonte
Carlos Ramos
On the Formal Specifications of Electronic Institutions	126	(22)
Marc Esteva
Juan-Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar
Carles Sierra
Pere Garcia
Josep L. Arcos
Towards a Flexible Trading Process over the Internet	148	(15)
Michael Vetter
Stefan Pitsch
Section III: Preferences
Modeling User Preferences and Mediating Agents in Electronic Commerce	163	(31)
Mehdi Dastani
Nico Jacobs
Catholijn M. Jonker
Jan Treur
Agent Technologies for the Development of Adaptive Web Stores	194	(20)
Liliana Ardissono
Anna Goy
Giovanna Petrone
Marino Segnan
Luca Console
Leonardo Lesmo
Carla Simone
Pietro Torasso
Constraint Satisfaction for Modelling Scalable Electronic Catalogs	214	(15)
Marc Torrens
Boi Faltings
Section IV: Security
Encrypting Java Archives and Its Application to Mobile Agent Security	229	(12)
Volker Roth
Vania Conan
Author Index	241