Personalized location-based brokering using an agent-based intermediary architecture

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 127-137

  Tewari, Gaurav ^a   Youll, Jim ^a   Maes, Pattie ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Electronic markets; Intermediaries; Location sensitive brokering; Merchant brokering; Negotiation; Product brokering; Software agents; Utility theory

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

LOCATION-SENSITIVE RESOURCE BROKERING; UTILITY THEORY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 0037209436     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(02)00076-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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