Design and implementation of a secure multi-agent marketplace

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 355-368

  Jaiswal, Ashutosh ^a   Kim, Yongdae ^a   Gini, Maria ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic auctions; Multi agent systems; Security

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRYPTOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MARKETING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SECURITY OF DATA;

ELECTRONIC AUCTIONS; MULTI-AGENT NEGOTIATION TESTBED (MAGNET); MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; REQUESTS FOR QUOTES (RFQ);

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 8344248769     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2004.06.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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