The Michigan Internet AuctionBot: a configurable auction server for human and software agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
eMediator: a next generation electronic commerce server
AAAI '99/IAAI '99 Proceedings of the sixteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence and the eleventh Innovative applications of artificial intelligence conference innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Electronic commerce: a managerial perspective
Electronic commerce: a managerial perspective
Bidding clubs: institutionalized collusion in auctions
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
A stable and efficient buyer coalition formation scheme for e-marketplaces
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Algorithm for combinatorial coalition formation and payoff division in an electronic marketplace
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
A Designated Bid Reverse Auction for Agent-Based Electronic Commerce
IEA/AIE '02 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems: developments in applied artificial intelligence
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
Multiple Negotiations among Agents for a Distributed Meeting Scheduler
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
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Internet is becoming an increasingly prosperous network for many types of commerce. Internet Auctions represent a particularly effective form of electronic commerce and have become a promising field for applying agent technologies. In many existing auction sites, some sellers deal in the same sort of goods or their imitations. Buyers bid for each item on sale. Buyers cannot always purchase goods at the lowest price because buyers compete, that is they do not cooperate with each other. Thus, buyers need to search hard to find items they can purchase. In this paper, we propose a bidders support system based on a mediated agent for auctions on the Internet. In our system, buyers can purchase goods at the lowest price by working in cooperation with each other. Each buyer selects an item based on his/her multi-attribute preferences. A mediated agent calculates the buyers' utilities, and determines the successful bidders. We consider an assumption of linear utility based on multi-attribute utility theory. The advantages of the bidder cooperation support system are as follows. (1) Each buyer can purchase an item at the lowest price. (2) The buyer's multi-attribute utilities are reflected. (3) The mechanism is robustness for buyer's anticipating. We conducted an experiment to investigate and compare buyers' utilities between existing auctions and our system. Our experiment shows that buyers utilities in our system are sufficiently higher than these in existing auctions.