Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets: AAMAS Workshop, AMEC 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2009, and IJCAI Workshop, TADA 2009, Pasadena, CA, USA, July 13, 2009, Selected and R / Edition 1

by Esther David, Enrico Gerding, David Sarne, Onn Shehory

Overview

The past decade in e-commerce will be remembered as one in which age- mediated electronic commerce technology became a reality. The evolution from electronic data interchange technology to electronic marketplaces brought e-commerce to the masses. Yet it was accompanied by numerous challenges - tributed to the exponentialincreasein the efforts requiredfor searchingandprocessing information as well as coordinating with the difierent parties involved. Theintroductionof autonomousagentsin e-commerce,enabling agent-mediated trading, holds the promise of bridging this gap, by facilitating—exible, faster, less labor-intensiveandhighly competitive commerce. Using agents,e-commerce nowgoesbeyondmerelyeliminatingthemediatorsinthetraditionalprocessand offersadynamic set oftechnologies,integratedapplicationsand multi-enterprise business processes that link enterprises together. Consequently, the focus of - search in the area of e-commerce is now on technologies for online advertising, searching, negotiating, ordering, delivering, paying, using, and servicing. No- days, the application of agents in e-commerce is well recognized as one of the fastest-growing and most exciting areas of computer science. This volume presents some of the recent advances in research on designing trading agents and mechanisms for agent-mediated electronic commerce. It is built around a collection of articles initially presented at two highly respected international workshops held in the summer of 2009. The—rst is the 11th - ternational Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC 2009) collocated with the AAMAS 2009 conference held in Budapest, Hungary. The second is the 2009 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2009) collocated with the IJCAI 2009 conference held in Pasadena, California, USA.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642151163
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	11/04/2010
Series:	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing , #59
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	275
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

A Study of Central Auction Based Wholesale Electricity Markets Sofia Ceppi Nicola Gatti 1

The Choice of Eliminating the Uncertainty Cloud in Auctions Esther David David Sarne 15

Eliciting Expert Advice in Service-Oriented Computing Enrico H. Gerding Kate Larson Nicholas R. Jennings 29

Approximating the Qualitative Vickrey Auction by a Negotiation Protocol Koen V. Hindriks Dmytro Tykhonov Mathijs de Weerdt 44

Automated Analysis of Auction Traces Mark Hoogendoorn Maria Gini 58

Mechanism Design for the Online Allocation of Items without Monetary Payments Behnam Jalilzadeh Léon Planken Mathijs de Weerdt 74

A Demand-Driven Approach for a Multi-Agent System in Supply Chain Management Yeugeniya Kovalchuk Maria Fasli 88

Mechanism Design for Eliciting Probabilistic Estimates from Multiple Suppliers with Unknown Costs and Limited Precision Athanasios Papakonstantinou Alex Rogers Enrico H. Gerding Nicholas R. Jennings 102

Nash Social Welfare in Multiagent Resource Allocation Sara Ramezani Ulle Endriss 117

Leading a Best-Response Teammate in an Ad Hoc Team Peter Stone Gal A. Kaminka Jeffrey S. Rosenschein 132

Designing an Ad Auctions Game for the Trading Agent Competition Patrick R. Jordan Michael P. Wellman 147

Robust Planning and Control Using Intelligent Products Gerben G. Meyer J.C. (Hans) Wortmann 163

How Specialised Are Specialists? Generalisation Properties of Entries from the 2008 and 2009 TAC Market Design Competitions Edward Robinson Peter McBurney Xin Yao 178

Learning Improved Entertainment Trading Strategies for the TAC Travel Game L. Julian Schvartzman Michael P. Wellman 195

Evaluation of Market Design Agents: The Mertacor Perspective Lampros C. Stavrogiannis Pericles A. Mitkas 211

Continuous Double Auctions with Execution Uncertainty Gert van Valkenhoef Sarvapali D. Ramchurn Perukrishnen Vytelingum Nicholas R. Jennings Rineke Verbrugge 226

Sequential Auctions with Partially Substitutable Goods Ioannis A. Vetsikas Nicholas R. Jennings 242

From General Game Descriptions to a Market Specification Language for General Trading Agents Michael Thielscher Dongmo Zhang 259

Author Index 275