The Role of Middle-Agents in Electronic Commerce

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 15-21

  Yarom, Itai ^a   Rosenschein, Jeffrey S ^a   Goldman, Claudia V ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED AGENTS; ELECTRONIC MARKETS (E-MARKETS);

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERNET; SALES; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 0346896325     PISSN: 10947167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2003.1249165     Document Type: Review

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