Customer coalitions in the electronic marketplace
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
CIA '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents IV, The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace
Goal-Based Autonomous Social Agents: Supporting Adaptation and Teaching in a Distributed Environment
ITS '98 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Multi-Agent Coordination through Coalition Formation
ATAL '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents IV, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Coalition Formation for Large-Scale Electronic Markets
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
A kernel-oriented model for coalition-formation in general environments: implementation and results
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
A coalition formation mechanism based on inter-agent trust relationships
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Towards a Customizable Platform for Simulation of Group Buying Markets
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
Protecting buying agents in e-marketplaces by direct experience trust modelling
Knowledge and Information Systems
Modelling reputation in agent-based marketplaces to improve the performance of buying agents
UM'03 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on User modeling
A strategy for improved satisfaction of selling software agents in E-commerce
AI'03 Proceedings of the 16th Canadian society for computational studies of intelligence conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
Human-agent teamwork in dynamic environments
Computers in Human Behavior
Design and validation of a relative trust model
Knowledge-Based Systems
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We address long-term coalitions that are formed of both customer and vendor agents after evaluating their trust relationships with other agents in the system. We present a coalition formation mechanism designed at agent level and analyzed at both system and agent levels. Evaluation has been conducted to compare agent strategies (individual vs. social) and to analyze the system behavior under different circumstances. Our results show that the coalition formation mechanism is beneficial for both the system (it reaches an equilibrium state) and for the agents (their gains increase exponentially in time).