Agents that reduce work and information overload
Communications of the ACM
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Artificial intelligence: a modern approach
Artificial intelligence: a modern approach
Money in electronic commerce: digital cash, electronic fund transfer, and Ecash
Communications of the ACM
Software agents
Agent technology: foundations, applications, and markets
Agent technology: foundations, applications, and markets
A Real-Life Experiment in Creating an Agent Marketplace
Software Agents and Soft Computing: Towards Enhancing Machine Intelligence, Concepts 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
Agent-mediated electronic commerce: a survey
The Knowledge Engineering Review
A legal analysis of human and electronic agents
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Buddy bots: how turing's fast friends are undermining consumer privacy
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments - Special section: Legal, ethical, and policy issues associated with virtual environments and computer mediated reality
Contract Formation through Preemptive Normative Conflict Resolution
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence
Contract Formation through Preemptive Normative Conflict Resolution
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence
Rights for autonomous artificial agents?
Communications of the ACM
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This article examines a number of contractual issues generated by the advent of intelligent agent applications. The aim of the study is to provide legal guidelines for developers of intelligent agent software by addressing the contractual difficulties associated with automated electronic transactions. The author investigates whether the requirements for a legally enforceable contract are satisfied by agent applications that operate independent of human supervision. Given the relative novelty of the technology and the paucity of case law in the area, the author's observations and conclusions are based on an analysis of first principles in contract law. Additionally, the author provides an analysis of whether proposed and enacted electronic commerce legislation in various jurisdictions is sufficient to cure the inherent deficiencies of traditional contract doctrine. Given the trend towards automated electronic commerce, the author concludes by highlighting the legal requirements that must be met in order to ensure the success of agent technology in the formation of online contracts.