Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Automated Negotiation and Strategy Design for Electronic Markets : AAMAS 2006 Workshop, TADA/AMEC 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006 Selected and Revised Papers

by Fasli, Maria; Shehory, Onn M.

• ISBN13: 9783540725015
• ISBN10: 3540725016
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the joint International Workshops on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, TADA 2006, and on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, AMEC VIII 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan, in May 2006 as an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from the presentations made at the workshop and include papers from the annual TAC tournament whose purpose is to stimulate research in trading agents and market mechanisms by providing a platform for agents competing in well-defined market scenarios. The papers address a mix of both theoretical and practical issues in trading agent design and technologies, theoretical and empirical evaluation of strategies in complex trading scenarios as well as mechanism design. Also covered are issues of agent-mediated electronic commerce ranging from the design of electronic marketplaces and efficient protocols to behavioral aspects of agents operating in such environments.

Table of Contents

Evolutionary Optimization of ZIP60: A Controlled Explosion in Hyperspace	p. 1
Savings in Combinatorial Auctions Through Transformation Relationships	p. 17
On Efficient Procedures for Multi-issue Negotiation	p. 31
TacTex-05: An Adaptive Agent for TAG SCM	p. 45
Market Efficiency, Sales Competition, and the Bullwhip Effect in the TAC SCM Tournaments	p. 46
Agent Compatibility and Coalition Formation: Investigating Two Interacting Negotiation Strategies	p. 75
TAC-REM - The Real Estate Market Game: A Proposal for the Trading Agent Competition	p. 90
Evolutionary Stability of Behavioural Types in the Continuous Double Auction	p. 103
A Fast Method for Learning Non-linear Preferences Online Using Anonymous Negotiation Data	p. 118
Adaptive Pricing for Customers with Probabilistic Valuations	p. 132
Agents' Bidding Strategies in a Combinatorial Auction Controlled Grid Environment	p. 149
A Comparison of Sequential and Simultaneous Auctions	p. 164
A Market-Pressure-Based Performance Evaluator for TAC-SCM	p. 178
Competing Sellers in Online Markets: Reserve Prices, Shili Bidding, and Auction Fees	p. 189
Robust Incentive-Compatible Feedback Payments	p. 204
The CrocodileAgent 2005: An Overview of the TAG SCM Agent	p. 219
A Fuzzy Constraint Based Model for Automated Purchase Negotiations	p. 234
Author Index	p. 249
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