Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets
This volume contains ten thoroughly refereed and revised papers detailing recent advances in research on designing trading agents and mechanisms for agent-mediated e-commerce. They were originally presented at the 13th International Workshop on Agent-Medi
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Esther David Valentin Robu Onn Shehory Sebastian Stein Andreas Symeonidis (Eds.)
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets AMEC 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2, 2011 and TADA 2011, Barcelona, Spain, July 17, 2011 Revised Selected Papers
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Volume Editors Esther David Ashkelon Academic College Ashkelon, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Valentin Robu University of Southampton Southampton, UK E-mail: [email protected] Onn Shehory IBM Haifa Research Lab Haifa, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Sebastian Stein University of Southampton Southampton, UK E-mail: [email protected] Andreas Symeonidis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece E-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 1865-1348 e-ISSN 1865-1356 ISBN 978-3-642-34888-4 e-ISBN 978-3-642-34889-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-34889-1 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012951308 ACM Computing Classification (1998): K.4.4, J.1, I.2.11, H.3.5
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Preface
Recent years have witnessed a vast increase in the number, diversity, and complexity of electronic marketplaces. Such distributed electronic markets are frequently seen as an essential tool for efficient allocation of resources in a variety of fields, ranging from electronic commerce, financial markets, distributed supply chain management, to next-generation power grids or the allocation of user attention space in online advertising. The rapid growth in these areas has also led to increasing interest into developing tools for the efficient automation of market-based interactions. In some areas, such automation is already a reality. For example, most of the trading occurring in financial markets is performed by algorithmic strategies, and much of the advertising space on the Web is allocated by automated engines. Multi-agent systems, which consist of autonomous, proactive, and interacting software components, have long been identifi
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