The Michigan Internet AuctionBot: a configurable auction server for human and software agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
eMediator: a next generation electronic commerce server
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
A stable and efficient buyer coalition formation scheme for e-marketplaces
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Accelerating information revelation in ascending-bid auctions: avoiding last minute bidding
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce
Sequential Auctions for the Allocation of Resources with Complementarities
IJCAI '99 Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
A Combinatorial Auction for Collaborative Planning
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Agent-mediated electronic commerce: a survey
The Knowledge Engineering Review
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A key-based coordination algorithm for dynamic readiness and repair service coordination
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A Combinatorial Auction Protocol among Versatile Experts and Amateurs
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Protocol/Mechanism Design for Cooperation/Competition
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
A strategy-proof mechanism based on multiple auction support agents
IEA/AIE'2005 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Instantiating the contingent bids model of truthful interdependent value auctions
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
An Adaptive Agent Negotiation Framework
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design IV
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PRIMA '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems
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Internet auctions are becoming an especially popular part of Electronic Commerce and auction protocols have been studied very widely in the field of multi-agent systems and AI. However, correctly judging the quality of auctioned goods is often difficult for non-experts (amateurs), in particular, on the Internet auctions. In this paper, we formalize such a situation so that Nature selects the quality of the auctioned good. Experts can observe Nature's selection (i.e., the quality of the good) correctly, while amateurs including the auctioneer cannot. In other words, the information on Nature's selection is asymmetric between experts and amateurs. In this situation, it is difficult to attain an efficient allocation, since experts have a clear advantage over amateurs and they would not reveal their valuable information without some reward. Thus, in this paper, we develop a new auction protocol in which truth-telling is a dominant strategy for each expert. This can be done by putting these experts in a situation similar to Prisoner's Dilemma. If they cooperate and tell lies, they can exclude amateurs, but betraying is a dominant strategy. By making experts to elicit their information on the quality of the good, the protocol can achieve a socially desirable, i.e., Pareto efficient allocation if certain assumptions are satisfied.