Among the many changes brought by the Internet is the emergence of electronic commerce over the Web. E-commerce activities, such as the online exchange of information, services, and products, are opening up completely new opportunities for business, at new levels of productivity and profitability. In parallel with the emergence of e-commerce, intelligent software agents as entities capable of independent action in open, unpredictable environments have matured into a promising new technology. Quite naturally, e-commerce agents hold great promise for exploiting the Internet's full potential as an electronic marketplace. The 20 coherently written chapters in this book by leading researchers and professionals present the state of the art in agent-mediated e-commerce. Researchers, professionals, and advanced students interested in e-commerce or agent technology will find this book an indispensable source of information and reference.
Author(s): Jiming Liu, Yiming Ye (auth.), Jiming Liu, Yiming Ye (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2033 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 350
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; Information Storage and Retrieval; Computers and Society; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Business Information Systems
Introduction to E-Commerce Agents: Marketplace Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand....Pages 1-6
A Generalized Platform for the Specification, Valuation, and Brokering of Heterogeneous Resources in Electronic Markets....Pages 7-24
Economics of Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Marketplace....Pages 25-38
An Electronic Marketplace Architecture Based on Technology of Intelligent Agents and Knowledge....Pages 39-60
Modelling Broker Agents in Electronic Commerce of Multimedia Products and Services....Pages 61-81
A Brokering Protocol for Electronic Trading....Pages 82-105
Price Formation in Double Auctions....Pages 106-134
Negotiating Agents in Manufacturing Decision Making Processes....Pages 135-153
Evaluating Resource Bundle Derivatives for Multi-agent Negotiation of Resource Allocation....Pages 154-165
Conversational Speech Biometrics....Pages 166-179
Secure Communication for Secure Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Applications....Pages 180-190
MA/LMA Architecture for Dealing with Malicious Agents in Agent-Mediated Electronic Markets....Pages 191-205
Secure Mobile Agent Digital Signatures with Proxy Certificates....Pages 206-220
Agent-Mediated Secure Electronic Transaction for Online Interdependent Purchases....Pages 221-246
An Agent-Based Micropayment System for E-Commerce....Pages 247-263
Security Issues in M—Commerce: A Usage—Based Taxonomy....Pages 264-282
Towards Distributed Workflow Enactment with Itineraries and Mobile Agent Management....Pages 283-294
Enterprise Federation and Its Multi-agent Modelization....Pages 295-322
User-Centered Agents for Structured Information Location....Pages 323-331
Using a Speech Technology Agent as an Interface for E-Commerce....Pages 332-346
