Matchmaking in Electronic Markets An Agent-Based Approach towards Matchmaking in Electronic Negotiations /

• Main Author: Veit, Daniel J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 2882
• Subjects: Software engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Information storage and retrieval.; Application software.; Computers and civilization.; E-commerce.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Artificial Intelligence.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Computers and Society.; e-Commerce/e-business.

Electronic negotiations concern transactions on the basis of electronic media, such as the Internet. Platforms have been developed to aid participants in electronic markets during the agreement phase. The key activity in this is the matching of offers and requests, for which we need a ranking of the...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamentals & Related Work
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Terminology and Overview
• 3 Related Work
• The Multidimensional Matchmaking Approach
• 4 Matchmaking Architecture
• 5 Matchmaking Implementation
• Application, Evaluation & Outlook
• 6 Application in a Real-World Market
• 7 Empirical Evaluation
• 8 Conclusions and Outlook.