Commerce, e-commerce, and m-commerce: what comes next?
Communications of the ACM - Mobile computing opportunities and challenges
Virtual product presentation based on images and graphics
Integrated image and graphics technologies
Time-Variant Distributed Agent Matching Applications
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Decision station: situating decision support systems
Decision Support Systems
Managing parallel inquiries in agents' two-sided search
Artificial Intelligence
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As Virtual Communities and electronic commerce are merging into each other, following the users wants and companies needs, at the same time electronic commerce is starting to support the whole buying process with agent technology adding efficiency and flexibility.We will discuss the integration of a multi agent market framework (CASBA) in a virtual community (VR-SHOP), which uses 3D graphical representations of the participants (avatars) to raise user acceptance and useability by providing a morenatural interaction with the medium internet. As an agent driven online marketplace, the CASBA system will provide an open, automated and flexible platform for electronic commerce. It supports parallel negotiations, following user specified utility functions and rule-based strategies, and various kinds of auctions