A Principled Study of the Design Tradeoffs for Autonomous Trading Agents

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 473-480

  Vetsikas, Ioannis A ^a   Selman, Bart ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce; Bidding Agents; Bidding Strategies; Electronic Marketplaces; Simultaneous Auctions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET; VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDERS;

AGENT-MEDIATED ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; BIDDING AGENTS; BIDDING STRATEGIES; ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE; SIMULTANEOUS AUCTIONS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 1142293025     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/860575.860651     Document Type: Conference Paper

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