Design and implementation of an agent-based intermediary infrastructure for electronic markets

EC 2000 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 86-94

  Tewari, Gaurav ^a   Maes, Pattie ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic commerce; electronic markets; highly mediated communications; intermediaries; merchant brokering; negotiation; product brokering; software agents; utility theory

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PRODUCT DESIGN; SPECIFICATIONS;

ELECTRONIC MARKET; GOOD AND SERVICES; HIGHLY MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; INTERMEDIARY; MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; MERCHANT BROKERING; MULTI-ATTRIBUTES; NEGOTIATION; PRODUCT BROKERING; UTILITY THEORY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 84869483538     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/352871.352881     Document Type: Conference Paper

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