Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce First International Workshop
Electronic Commerce, as a gamut of activities involving electronic transactions performed over a network via software that may be more or less autonomous, is an emerging reality. Strategic studies have shown that electronic commerce is a major growth indu
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen
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Pablo Noriega
Carles Sierra (Eds.)
Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce First International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading AMET-98 Minneapolis, MN, USA, May 10th, 1998 Selected Papers
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany
Volume Editors Pablo Noriega INEGI San Juan Mixcoac, Mexico DF 03720, Mexico E-mail: [email protected] Carles Sierra IIIA, CSIC - Spanish Scientific Research Council E-08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain E-mail: [email protected]
Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Agent mediated electronic commerce : selected papers / First International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading, AMET-98, Minneapolis, MN, USA, May 10th, 1998. Pablo Noriega ; Carles Sierra (ed.). - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Singapore ; Tokyo : Springer, 1999 (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 1571 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-65955-2
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, K.4.4, C.2, H.3.4-5, H.4.3, H.5.3, I.2, J.1, K.5 ISBN 3-540-65955-2 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author SPIN: 10703024 06/3142 - 5 4 3 2 1 0 – Printed on acid-free paper
Preface
Electronic Commerce —a gamut of activities involving economic transactions performed through software that may be more or less autonomous over a network (mostly an open network like the Internet)— is an emerging reality. It is, undoubtedly, a reality that has been coming into being for some time, perhaps since the old teleprocessing days of the late sixties, and certainly inherits many traits from soundly established practices in banking and business. However, what we currently identify as Electronic Commerce (EC) is a brand new phenomenon mainly because of the sociological impact of personal computing and the Internet. For example, we might have glimpsed at new forms of “immediacy” or at a different notion of “proximity” thanks to teleprocessing, but the size and diversity of a truly world–wide digital village is only recently becoming apparent. Conse
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