Bidding Strategies in Agent-Based Continuous Double Auctions

• Main Authors: Ma, Huiye (Author), Leung, Ho-fung (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2008.
• Series: Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Computer Science.; Information Systems and Communication Service.

Online auctions are a platform to trade goods on the Internet. In this context, negotiation capabilities for software agents in continuous double auctions (CDAs) are a central concern. Agents need to be able to prepare bids for and evaluate offers on behalf of the users they represent with the aim o...

Table of Contents:

• Agent-Based CDAs and Bidding Strategies
• The Adaptive Attitude Bidding Strategy
• Soft Asks and Soft Bids
• Adaptive Judgement of Price Acceptability
• Adaptive Time Strategies
• Discussion of the Results
• Conclusions and Future Work.