A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Communications of the ACM
KQML as an agent communication language
Software agents
Applying the Agent Paradigm to Network Management
BT Technology Journal
Automatic Learning of User Profiles — Towards the Personalisation of Agent Services
BT Technology Journal
FIPA — Towards a Standard for Software Agents
BT Technology Journal
SICS MarketSpace - An Agent-Based Market Infrastructure
AMET '98 Selected Papers from the First International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
Agent-Mediated Integrative Negotiation for Retail Electronic Commerce
AMET '98 Selected Papers from the First International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
A pi-calculus Model of a Spanish Fish Market - Preliminary Report
AMET '98 Selected Papers from the First International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
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The increasing popularity of the Internet provides personal computer users with direct access to a wealth of information sources and services, and potentially a massive global marketplace. Unfortunately current home shopping systems are primitive; what the consumer wants is a personal shopping agent - an intelligent, reliable proxy who is aware of personal preferences, and who can take over the tedious task of searching the Internet for the best possible deal. Likewise retailers would like to use the Internet to attract a much larger volume of potential customers, who could be serviced quickly and efficiently at a much lower cost. This vision is seductive, so why has it not yet been realised? This paper considers why agent-based commerce is inherently difficult, and advocates collaborative agent technology as a means of more easily building distributed marketplaces. To illustrate this principle we have built a prototype multi-agent virtual marketplace with ZEUS, a generic collaborative agent tool-kit.