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A Sound and Complete Distributed Algorithm for Distributed Commerce Transactions |
A sound and Complete Distributed Algorithm for Distributed
Commerce Transactions by Steven P. Ketchpel and Hector
Garcia-Molina of the Stanford Digital Library Project. In
situations where self-interested agents are interacting in
an environment of distrust, commercial exchanges may be
blocked due to a lack of trust. We propose a fully
distributed algorithm that each agent may run to provide
minimum guarantees about the outcomes of such exchanges.
The algorithm is shown in operation on two examples, one
feasible and one not, and is proven to be sound and
complete. The algorithm is extended to consider situations
in which direct trust does exist between certain
participants and those with deadlines for completion.
Examples and proofs of soundness and completeness are
given for these extensions as well. |
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Agent-Based Manufacturing Laboratory |
UC's Agent-Based Manufacturing Laboratory gives
information about its director, students, projects and a
comprehensive listing of publications. |
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Agent-Based Market Space |
Agent-Based Market Space - Agent Mediated Electronic
Commerce. The vision is to enable automation of electronic
commerce, focused on the interaction in a market (like
searching, negotiation, deal settlement) using agents.
Each participant in the market (whichever role he/she has)
have an agent that automate the interactions partially or
fully. The site offers an overview of the AMP (Agent-Based
Marketplace Project), Models, Documents, Agent Toolkit and
Electronic Commerce/Agents Links. |
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AgentBuilder Agents for Electronic Commerce |
This application note describes a simple Electronic
Commerce application built using AgentBuilder, an
integrated toolkit that enables you to create intelligent
agents quickly and easily. This application consists of
three interacting agents: one Buyer Agent and two Store
Agents. Each kind of Agent has a different role and
different capabilities. Although this example features
only two Store Agents, the Buyer Agent is able to interact
with any number of Store Agents. |
| Agentis |
The innovative software technologies pioneered by the
Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII) have
been invested within Agentis Business Solutions. Now,
through Agentis International, the benefits of this
approach can be realized by organizations throughout the
world. |
| Agents in Commerce |
Give a listing of Agents in Commerce and companies
currently involved in the creation of commerce agents. |
AuctionBot
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AuctionBot is a multi-purpose Internet Auction server
developed at the University of Michigan. Use the
AuctionBot to create automated Internet auctions according
to your specifications, or bid in existing AuctionBot
auctions. |
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Bazaar
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Bazaar proposes to transform electronic commerce on the
Internet by providing an open marketplace infrastructure
for commerce agents of various complexity to negotiate for
goods and services on behalf of their owners. |
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CITM's Negotiation in Electronic Commerce Project |
This project, conducted by Professor Arie Segev and Carrie
Beam, seeks to address the issues of theory and
implementation for negotiation processes within the
context of electronic commerce. Negotiation within
electronic commerce must provide two major capabilities:
the capability to negotiate in a fair, intelligent, timely
manner; and the capability to incorporate the
characteristics made possible by the Internet and the Web
- those of global reach, multi-party participation,
asynchronous contribution, distributed processing and
computational speed. |
| CommerceNet |
CommerceNet is the premier industry association for
Internet Commerce established in April, 1994. All commerce
issues concerning the Internet are discussed in various
CommerceNet's Task Forces and Special Interest Groups. |
| Economic Agents |
Using results from computational and experimental
economics, economic agents generate offers and bids for
goods that lead to an optimum distribution of resource
within the market. This market can be artificial, designed
to allocate scarce resources such as memory or network
bandwidth, or real, and involve the buying and selling of
commodities. Current focus is on creating agent-based
automated markets for business to business trading of
commodities. |
| FishMarket Project |
The FishMarket Project studies how to build agent-mediated
institutions that may prove useful for electronic
commerce. FishMarket is an electronic auction house, based
upon the traditional fish market, where agents of
arbitrary complexity may trade over a reliable network
under fair, robust and lively conditions. |
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HEDG: Hyper- Economy Development Group |
HEDG: Hyper-Economy Development Group is a small
distributed research group working on theory and practical
implementation of multi-agent systems combining flows of
knowledge and value data. The HEDG pages at this point are
a working communications medium for the group. |
| ICARIS |
Intelligent Commercial and Research Information Systems
(ICARIS) is a resource site for researchers who are
investigating the automated (no human involvement)
Business processes, the design, construction and
interoperation of state-of-the-art Business Information
systems and those which might evolve in the future. |
| Industry.Net |
Industry.Net is an excellent resource for business
information including the latest uses of agent technology
online. |
| Kasbah |
The goal of the Kasbah system is to help realize a
fundamental transformation in the way people transact
goods - from requiring constant monitoring and effort, to
a system where a software agent does most of the work on
the user's behalf. Related papers and links are available here.
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Market Based Multi Agent Systems Resource Page |
The Market Based Multi Agent Systems Resource Page
includes listings of researchers, groups, research and
publications, systems, tools and general information in
the area of market based or economically inspired
computing. |
| MarketNet |
MarketNet: A Survivable, Market-Based Architecture for
Large-Scale Information Systems. The MarketNet Project is
developing novel technologies, based on economic
mechanisms, to ensure the systematic, quantifiable and
predictable survivability of large-scale information
systems. |
| Negotiation in Electronic Commerce Resources and Projects |
A comprehensive page of resources and projects dedicated
to negotiation in electronic commerce protocols, standards
and agents. |
| Office Avatars |
The goals of Office Avatars project is to investigate the
use of autonomous avatars in the workplace. In particular
they are interested in the role of an avatar as a personal
representative which can provide useful information or
other utility when the avatar's owner cannot be present. |
| PriceScan |
PriceScan is your unbiased guide to the lowest computer
prices. Other sites show you only the prices they are paid
to list. PriceScan shows you all competitive prices. |
| Price Watch (TM) |
Price Watch (TM) is the fastest way to find a great street
price on a computer product. Type in the "search" box or
click through category or product lists. The Price Watch
Network allows retailers to advertise their prices in real
time, using their proprietary Price Watch Info-Link
system. |
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The AmEC Initiative |
The Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce (AmEC) Initiative
investigates how software agent technologies can expedite
the electronic commerce revolution. Issues addressed
include distributed component-based marketplaces, open and
extensible languages and protocols for locating and
defining goods and services, merchant differentiation,
value-based product comparisons, buying decision aids,
negotiation protocols, visualization of marketplace data
and activities, and issues of trust, reputation, security,
marketing, intermediaries, as well as the socioeconomic
implications of next generation agent-mediated electronic
commerce systems. |
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The Future of Electronic Commerce |
With the announcement of a commercial Intelligent Agent
standard for electronic commerce, these agents are trained
to do work for you while you are not on the Internet. This
site gives an overview and state-of-the-art information on
commerce agents. |
| The JAM Project |
The JAM Project is a collaboration with the Financial
Services Consortium (FSTC) including Chase, First Union
and Citibank as well as Columbia University and Florida
Tech. System developments are targeted to Java and are
platform independent. Use of local classifier agents and
meta-learning agents allowing financial institutions to
inspect, classify and label each incoming secured
electronic transaction. |
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