Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Price dynamics and quality in information markets
Decision Support Systems - Special issue on information and computational economics
The impact of infocenters on e-marketplaces
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
An exploratory study of the emerging role of electronic intermediaries
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Agent-human interactions in the continuous double auction
IJCAI'01 Proceedings of the 17th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Electronic Commerce Research
Technical construction methods for e-marketplace
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce
Multi-agent asynchronous negotiation based on time-delay
LSMS/ICSEE'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Life system modeling and and intelligent computing, and 2010 international conference on Intelligent computing for sustainable energy and environment: Part I
FSP and FLTL framework for specification and verification of middle-agents
International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science - Semantic Knowledge Engineering
The role of intelligent agents and data mining in electronic partnership management
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A framework for collaborative business development based on middle agent model
IEA/AIE'12 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems: advanced research in applied artificial intelligence
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The authors explore questions related to the presence of middlemen in electronic markets. Howdoes the existence of intermediaries affect the efficiency of electronic markets? What is the roleplayed by various strategies that these intermediaries might adopt? What if they can pursue moresophisticated pricing strategies? The authors developed a simulation of an electronic marketplace,specifically a marketplace of information. All roles in these simulations were played by automatedagents, which were designed to act as information producers, information suppliers, or information"middlemen" (called InfoCenters). Simulations were then run to test how these InfoCenter intermediariesaffected the market's efficiency and price behavior. The authors looked at several different strategiesfor these middle-agents, comparing how they-and the market-did in each case. It turned out thatInfoCenters could significantly enhance the efficiency of information marketplaces, and sophisticated InfoCenters did the best of all.