A fundamental problem in business-to-business exchanges is the efficient design of
mechanisms to promote cooperation and coordination of various self-interested agents. We …

In this paper, we analyze an Internet agent-based market where non-cooperative agents
using behavioral rules negotiate the price of a given product in a bilateral and sequential …

Automated negotiation through autonomous agents has become increasingly important
since the advent of e-marketplace. A deadlock may arise in which both negotiators refuse to …

In electronic commerce markets where selfish agents behave individually, agents often have
to acquire multiple resources in order to accomplish a high level task with each resource …

When autonomous agents decide on their bidding strategies in real world auctions, they
have a number of concerns that go beyond the models that are normally analyzed in …

In this paper we study search strategies of agents that represent buyer agents' coalitions in
electronic marketplaces. The representative agents operate in environments where …

We study electronic bidding and contracting for nonstorable goods such as electric power
using multi-GA agents and game theoretical approaches. In this framework there is a long …

Automated agentsfor electronic markets are very valuable when a large amount of
information must be processed quickly or employing human traders is not cost-effective. In …

This paper presents a methodology for designing trading agents for complex games. We
compute, for the first time, Bayes-Nash equilibria for firstprice single-unit auctions and mth …

E-commerce increasingly provides opportunities for autonomous bidding agents: computer
programs that bid in electronic markets without direct human intervention. Automated …