This article reviews the growing body of research on electronic commerce from the
perspective of economic analysis. It begins by constructing a new framework for …

This paper provides an overview of research and development activities in the field of
autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. It aims to identify key concepts and …

Many researchers have demonstrated that the organizational design employed by an agent
system can have a significant, quantitative effect on its performance characteristics. A range …

We advocate the use of point sets to represent shapes. We provide a definition of a smooth
manifold surface from a set of points close to the original surface. The definition is based on …

This comprehensive text explains the principles and practice of Web services and relates all
concepts to practical examples and emerging standards. Its discussions include: Ontologies …

A model for strategic negotiation for intelligent agents. As computers advance from isolated
workstations to linked elements in complex communities of systems and people, cooperation …

We review the applications of artificial life (ALife), the creation of synthetic life on computers
to study, simulate, and understand living systems. The definition and features of ALife are …

Market mechanisms, such as auctions, will likely rep resent a common interaction medium
for agents on the Internet. The Michigan Internet AuctionBot is a flexible, scalable, and …

Multi-agent systems is a subfield of Distributed Artificial Intelligence that has experienced
rapid growth because of the flexibility and the intelligence available solve distributed …

Work to date on computational models of negotiation has focused almost exclusively on
defining contracts consisting of one or a few independent issues and tractable contract …