Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis: AAMAS 2007 Workshop, AMEC 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 14, 2007, and AAAI ... Notes in Business Information Processing, 13) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 3540887121 ISBN 13: 9783540887126

Publisher: Springer, 2008

Synopsis

The explosivegrowthofInternet-enabled distributed electronic marketshas p- sented participants with steadily increasing costs for search, transactions, and coordination. This has resulted in growing interest in the design of intelligent trading agents, mechanisms, and systems. Furthermore, new technologies s- porting business models are resulting in a growing volume of open and horiz- tally integrated markets for trading of an increasingly diverse sets of goods and services. However, growth of technologies for such markets requires innovative solutions to a diverse set of existing and novel technical problems which we are only beginning to understand. Speci?cally, distributed markets present not only traditional economic problems but also introduce new and challenging com- tational issues that are not represented in classic economic solution concepts. Research in agent-mediated electronic commmerce addresses these issues in thecomputationalsubstratesoftradingagents,andin theelectronicinstitutions thatsupporttrading.Insum,agent-mediatedelectronictraderequiresprincipled design(fromeconomicsandgametheory)andincorporatesnovelcombinationsof theories from di?erent disciplines such as computer science, operations research, arti?cial intelligence, and distributed systems. This volume contains revised, selected papers from the 9th Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC IX), co-located with the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2007),andfromthe5thWorkshoponTradingAgentDesignandAn- ysis(TADA), co-locatedwiththe The 22ndAAAI ConferenceonArti?cialInt- ligence (AAAI 2007). The primary, and complementary, goal of both workshops was to continue to bring together novel work from diverse ?elds that focus on modeling, implementation, and evaluation of computational trading institutions and/or agent strategies. ThepapersinthisvolumethatoriginatedatAMECfocusonalargevarietyof issuesonauctions,negotiation,andstrategicbehaviorinelectronicmarketplaces. As to auctions, Constantin et al. focus on auction design. They adopt a c- putational approach to the design of dynamic, interdependent-value auctions.

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, AMEC IX, co-located with the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2007, held in Honolulu, Hawai, in May 2007, and the 5th Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, TADA 2007, co-located with the Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2007, held in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2007.

This volume presents 15 carefully revised and selected papers from these workshops. The primary and complementary goal of both workshops was to continue to bring together novel work from diverse fields on modeling, implementation and evaluation of computational trading institutions and/or agent strategies. The papers originating from AMEC focus on a large variety of issues on auctions, negotiation, and strategic behavior in electronic marketplaces. The papers originating from TADA reflect the effort of the community to design scenarios where trading agent designers and market designers can be pitched against one another.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 3540887121
• ISBN 13: 9783540887126
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 253
• Editor: Collins John, Faratin Peyman, Parsons Simon D., Rodriguez-Aguilar Juan A., Sadeh Norman M., Shehory Onn, Sklar Elizabeth