KQML as an agent communication language
Software agents
Methods for task allocation via agent coalition formation
Artificial Intelligence
Communications of the ACM
Electronic commerce: a managerial perspective
Electronic commerce: a managerial perspective
Customer coalitions in the electronic marketplace
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
A framework for applying intelligent agents to support electronic trading
Decision Support Systems
A stable and efficient buyer coalition formation scheme for e-marketplaces
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
A genetic agent-based negotiation system
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Introduction to E-Commerce Agents: Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand
E-Commerce Agents, Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand
On Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue: Fuzzy set and possibility theory-based methods in artificial intelligence
Agent-mediated electronic commerce: a survey
The Knowledge Engineering Review
A machine-learning approach to automated negotiation and prospects for electronic commerce
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Information technology and its organizational impact
Agent behaviors in virtual negotiation environments
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
A simultaneous multi-attribute soft-bargaining design for bilateral contracts
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Multi-agent resource allocation (MARA) for modeling construction processes
Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation
Agent-based bilateral multi-issue negotiation scheme for e-market transactions
Applied Soft Computing
Multi-agent-based supply chain management: a case study of requisites
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Hybrid simulation models - When, Why, How?
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Intelligent service-integrated platform based on the RFID technology and software agent system
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics
Forming buyer coalition with bundles of items by ant colony optimization
ICCC'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Computers and computing
International Journal of E-Business Research
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Electronic commerce has changed the outlook of traditional business trading behavior. It is now common to see business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C) and consumer-to-consumer (C2C) commerce on the Internet. However, another type of model, consumer-to-business (C2B), is seldom found. A possible reason for this phenomenon is transaction cost; to unite a group of candidate buyers' common needs and preferences to buy a product or service is uneasy. Difficulties arise, for example, in how to synthesize individual's preferences into a group's consensus, how to communicate with each other within the group, and how to collectively negotiate with a seller, etc. To establish a successful business model in the electronic market, however, these processes have to be implemented. We address these issues in this paper, and propose a Buyer Collective Purchasing (BCP) model implemented in a multi-agent framework. A prototype system, which uses a laptop computer purchasing case as an example, is created to demonstrate the idea and show how the model works.