Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce The European AgentLink Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dignum, Frank (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sierra, Carles (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 1991
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Computer communication systems.; Trade.; Business.; Commerce.; Information storage and retrieval.; Application software.; Information technology.; Business-Data processing.; Artificial Intelligence.; Computer Communication Networks.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; IT in Business.

It is now no longer necessary to argue the importance of agent technology. Be- des numerous conferences and workshops on speci c aspects of agent technology there are also many companies that are exploring its exploitation possibilities. In the light of these developments and in order to foster the...

Table of Contents:

• AMEC: Scientific and Technological Roadmap
• Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Scientific and Technological Roadmap
• Negotiation
• A Classification Scheme for Negotiation in Electronic Commerce
• Designing and Testing Negotiation Protocols for Electronic Commerce Applications
• Specifying the Processes and States of Negotiation
• Agents Advanced Features for Negotiation in Electronic Commerce and Virtual Organisations Formation Process
• Markets
• Agents, Markets, Institutions, and Protocols
• A Model for an Electronic Market Place
• On the Formal Specification of Electronic Institutions
• Towards a Flexible Trading Process over the Internet
• Preferences
• Modeling User Preferences and Mediating Agents in Electronic Commerce
• Agent Technologies for the Development of Adaptive Web Stores
• Constraint Satisfaction for Modelling Scalable Electronic Catalogs
• Security
• Encrypting Java Archives and Its Application to Mobile Agent Security.