Communications of the ACM
A softbot-based interface to the Internet
Communications of the ACM
Yenta: a multi-agent, referral-based matchmaking system
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
An adaptive Web page recommendation service
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Challenges for Machine Learning in Cooperative Information Systems
ECAI '96 Selected papers from the Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence Meets Machine Learning, Learning in Multi-Agent Environments
Towards a Theory of Cooperative Problem Solving
MAAMAW '94 Proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents: Distributed Software Agents and Applications
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Electronic Commerce is based on the exchange of information between involved stakeholders, using the underlying telecommunication infrastructure. Business-to-Consumer applications enable providers to propagate their offers, and customers to find an offer, which matches their demand. A huge collection of frequently updated offers and customers, the electronic marketplace, reveals the task of matching the demand and supply processes in a commercial mediation environment. The aim of the Abrose project (Agent based BROkerage SErvices for electronic commerce) launched by ACTS Domain V is to design a brokerage system based on adaptive multi-agent architecture. The first part of this paper explains the reasons of using this technology and gives a brief survey of related works. The second part describes the broker architecture and examines the underlying basic self-organization and learning mechanisms used. The third part concerns a description of the main tasks the global system has to perform. Then how it provides advanced electronic brokerage services in three business domains (tourism, trading and teleworking) is described. The paper ends on the current state of the Abrose system development.