E-Commerce Agents : Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand

by Liu, Jiming; Ye, Yiming

• ISBN13: 9783540419341
• ISBN10: 3540419349
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Among the many changes brought by the Internet is the emergence of electronic commerce over the Web. E-commerce activities, such as the online exchange of information, services, and products, are opening up completely new opportunities for business, at new levels of productivity and profitability. In parallel with the emergence of e-commerce, intelligent software agents as entities capable of independent action in open, unpredictable environments have matured into a promising new technology. Quite naturally, e-commerce agents hold great promise for exploiting the Internet's full potential as an electronic marketplace. The 20 coherently written chapters in this book by leading researchers and professionals present the state of the art in agent-mediated e-commerce. Researchers, professionals, and advanced students interested in e-commerce or agent technology will find this book an indispensable source of information and reference.

Table of Contents

Introduction to E-Commerce Agents: Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand	1	(6)
Jiming Liu
Yiming Ye
Part I Marketplace Solutions
A Generalized Platform for the Specification, Valuation, and Brokering of Heterogeneous Resources in Electronic Markets	7	(18)
Gaurav Tewari
Pattie Maes
Economics of Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Marketplace	25	(14)
Giorgos Zacharia
Theodoros Evgeniou
Alexandros Moukas
Petros Boufounos
Pattie Maes
An Electronic Marketplace Architecture Based on Technology of Intelligent Agents and Knowledge	39	(22)
Georgia Pinto Barbosa
Fabio Q. B. Silva
Modelling Broker Agents in Electronic Commerce of Multimedia Products and Services	61	(21)
Isabel Gallego
Jaime Delgado
A Brokering Protocol for Electronic Trading	82	(24)
Kwang Mong Sim
Raymond Chan
Price Formation in Double Auctions	106	(29)
Steven Gjerstad
John Dickhaut
Negotiating Agents in Manufacturing Decision Making Processes	135	(19)
P. W. Lei
M. I. Heywood
C. R. Chatwin
Evaluating Resource Bundle Derivatives for Multi-agent Negotiation of Resource Allocation	154	(12)
Lars Rasmusson
Part II Security Issues
Conversational Speech Biometrics	166	(14)
Stephane H. Maes
Jiri Navratil
Upendra V. Chaudhari
Secure Communication for Secure Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Applications	180	(11)
Jorris Claessens
Bart Preneel
Joos Vandewalle
MA/LMA Architecture for Dealing with Malicious Agents in Agent-Mediated Electronic Markets	191	(15)
Ding Peng
Shi Jun
Sheng Huan Ye
Liming Lu
Secure Mobile Agent Digital Signatures with Proxy Certificates	206	(15)
Artur Romao
Miguel Mira da Silva
Agent-Mediated Secure Electronic Transaction for Online Interdependent Purchases	221	(26)
Xun Yi
Chee Kheong Siew
Yuan Miao
An Agent-Based Micropayment System for E-Commerce	247	(17)
T. O. Lee
Y. L. Yip
C. M. Tsang
K. W. Ng
Security Issues in M-Commerce: A Usage-Based Taxonomy	264	(19)
Suresh Chari
Parviz Kermani
Sean Smith
Leandros Tassiulas
Part III Supply and Demand
Towards Distributed Workflow Enactment with Itineraries and Mobile Agent Management	283	(12)
Seng Wai Loke
Arkady Zaslavsky
Enterprise Federation and Its Multi-agent Modelization	295	(28)
Huaglory Tianfield
User-Centered Agents for Structured Information Location	323	(9)
Xindong Wu
Daniel Ngu
Sameer S. Pradhan
Using a Speech Technology Agents as an Interface for E-Commerce	332	(15)
Marie Devlin Terri Scott
Author Index	347