E-Commerce Agents Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Su

Among the many changes brought by the Internet is the emergence of electronic commerce over the Web. E-commerce activities, such as the online exchange of information, services, and products, are opening up completely new opportunities for business, at ne

  • PDF / 4,437,305 Bytes
  • 383 Pages / 429.976 x 649.998 pts Page_size
  • 95 Downloads / 199 Views

DOWNLOAD

REPORT


Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen

2033

3

Berlin Heidelberg New York Barcelona Hong Kong London Milan Paris Singapore Tokyo

Jiming Liu Yiming Ye (Eds.)

E-Commerce Agents Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand

13

Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell,Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors Jiming Liu Hong Kong Baptist University Department of Computer Science Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China E-mail: [email protected] Yiming Ye IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 30 Saw Mill River Road (Route 9A) Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme E-commerce agents : marketplace solutions, security issues, and supply and demand / Jiming Liu ; Yiming Ye (ed.). - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Singapore ; Tokyo : Springer, 2001 (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 2033 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-41934-9

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, K.4.4, C.2, K.6.5, H.3.5-7, D.4.6 ISBN 3-540-41934-9 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 New York a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH http://www.springer.de © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by PTP Berlin, Stefan Sossna Printed on acid-free paper SPIN 10782400 06/3142 543210

Table of Contents Introduction to E-Commerce Agents: Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand ............................................. 1 Jiming Liu, Yiming Ye

Part I Marketplace Solutions A Generalized Platform for the Specification, Valuation, and Brokering of Heterogeneous Resources in Electronic Markets ............................................... 7 Gaurav Tewari, Pattie Maes Economics of Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Marketplace............................................................................................................ 25 Giorgos Zacharia, Theodoros Evgeniou, Alexandros Moukas, Petros Boufounos, Pattie Maes An Electronic Marketplace Architecture Based on Technology of Intelligent Agents and Knowledge.........................................................................