Webonomics: The Nine Essential Priciples for Growing Your Business on the World Wide Web
Webonomics: The Nine Essential Priciples for Growing Your Business on the World Wide Web
EMail With A Mind of Its Own: The Safe-Tcl Language for Enabled Mail
Proceedings of the IFIP TC6/WG6.5 International Conference on Upper Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications
Cooperative vs. Competitive Multi-Agent Negotiations in Retail Electronic Commerce
CIA '98 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents II, Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet
Negotiation and task sharing among autonomous agents in cooperative domains
IJCAI'89 Proceedings of the 11th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Online Auction Protocols: A Comparative Study
ISEC '01 Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Topics in Electronic Commerce
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With the proliferation of retail commerce on the Internet, mobile agents play more and more important roles in automating information brokering and negoiation for online shopping. However, due to the limited computing resources and security concerns, current first-generation shopping agents have limited capacities to conduct commercial bargaining. On the other hand, though auctions appear promising to solve these dificulties with their fairness and openness features, they suffer from the problems such as reversed consumer-buyer relation and low performance. In this paper, we propose a secure agent-mediated auction-like negotiation protocol which combines togather the favorable features of traditional English auction and mobile agent scheme. Its features lie at: (1) auctionlike scheme is implemented which keeps the dominant equilibrium in the English auction and rationalizes consumer-seller relation in the retail commerce. (2) security for negotiation agents is guaranteed which makes tampering on agent body easy to detect. (3) flexibility during the trading is achieved by combining information gathering and negotiation together while few communications are needed.