Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Agents and Mechanisms

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

3937

Han La Poutré Norman M. Sadeh Sverker Janson (Eds.)

Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce Designing Trading Agents and Mechanisms AAMAS 2005 Workshop, AMEC 2005 Utrecht, Netherlands, July 25, 2005 and IJCAI 2005 Workshop, TADA 2005 Edinburgh, UK, August 1, 2005 Selected and Revised Papers

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Han La Poutré CWI Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Norman M. Sadeh Carnegie Mellon University ISRI - School of Computer Science 5000 Frobes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891, USA E-mail: [email protected] Sverker Janson Swedish Institute of Computer Science Box 1263, 164 29 Kista, Sweden E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006934011

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, K.4.4, C.2, H.3.4-5, H.5.3, I.2, J.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 3-540-46242-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-46242-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

As use of automated agent trading, online auctions and other forms of agentmediated electronic commerce is gaining prominence in everyday economic activities, interest in further advancing these technologies is also continuing to grow. The present volume presents a snapshot of research on Designing Trading Agents and Mechanisms for Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. The book has been built around a collection of articles initially presented at two highly respected international workshops held in the summer of 2005: – The 2005 workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce VII: Designing Mechanisms and Systems (AMEC VII, 2005) collocated with the AAMAS 2005 conference held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in July 2005. AMEC 2005 was the seventh in a series of international workshops on research at the intersection between computer science, operations research, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, and economics, including game theory. Research presented at this wor