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| A
Sound and Complete Distributed Algorithm for Distributed Commerce Transactions |
A sound and Complete Distributed
Algorithm for Distributed Commerce Transactions by Steven P. Ketchpel
and Hector Garcia-Molina of the Stanford Digital Library Project.
In situations where self-interested agents are interacting in an environment
of distrust, commercial exchanges may be blocked due to a lack of
trust. We propose a fully distributed algorithm that each agent may
run to provide minimum guarantees about the outcomes of such exchanges.
The algorithm is shown in operation on two examples, one feasible
and one not, and is proven to be sound and complete. The algorithm
is extended to consider situations in which direct trust does exist
between certain participants and those with deadlines for completion.
Examples and proofs of soundness and completeness are given for these
extensions as well. |
| Agent-Based Manufacturing Laboratory |
UC's Agent-Based Manufacturing
Laboratory gives information about its director, students, projects
and a comprehensive listing of publications. |
| Agent-Based Market Space |
Agent-Based Market Space - Agent
Mediated Electronic Commerce. The vision is to enable automation of
electronic commerce, focused on the interaction in a market (like
searching, negotiation, deal settlement) using agents. Each participant
in the market (whichever role he/she has) have an agent that automate
the interactions partially or fully. The site offers an overview of
the AMP (Agent-Based Marketplace Project), Models, Documents, Agent
Toolkit and Electronic Commerce/Agents Links. |
| AgentBuilder
Agents for Electronic Commerce |
This application note describes
a simple Electronic Commerce application built using AgentBuilder,
an integrated toolkit that enables you to create intelligent agents
quickly and easily. This application consists of three interacting
agents: one Buyer Agent and two Store Agents. Each kind of Agent has
a different role and different capabilities. Although this example
features only two Store Agents, the Buyer Agent is able to interact
with any number of Store Agents. |
| Agentis | The innovative software technologies
pioneered by the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII)
have been invested within Agentis Business Solutions. Now, through
Agentis International, the benefits of this approach can be realized
by organizations throughout the world. |
| Agents in Commerce | Give a listing of Agents in Commerce
and companies currently involved in the creation of commerce agents. |
AuctionBot |
AuctionBot is a multi-purpose Internet
Auction server developed at the University of Michigan. Use the AuctionBot
to create automated Internet auctions according to your specifications,
or bid in existing AuctionBot auctions. |
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Bazaar
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Bazaar proposes to transform electronic
commerce on the Internet by providing an open marketplace infrastructure
for commerce agents of various complexity to negotiate for goods and
services on behalf of their owners. |
| CITM's
Negotiation in Electronic Commerce Project |
This project, conducted by Professor
Arie Segev and Carrie Beam, seeks to address the issues of theory
and implementation for negotiation processes within the context of
electronic commerce. Negotiation within electronic commerce must provide
two major capabilities: the capability to negotiate in a fair, intelligent,
timely manner; and the capability to incorporate the characteristics
made possible by the Internet and the Web - those of global reach,
multi-party participation, asynchronous contribution, distributed
processing and computational speed. |
| CommerceNet | CommerceNet is the premier industry
association for Internet Commerce established in April, 1994. All
commerce issues concerning the Internet are discussed in various CommerceNet's
Task Forces and Special Interest Groups. |
| Economic Agents | Using results from computational
and experimental economics, economic agents generate offers and bids
for goods that lead to an optimum distribution of resource within
the market. This market can be artificial, designed to allocate scarce
resources such as memory or network bandwidth, or real, and involve
the buying and selling of commodities. Current focus is on creating
agent-based automated markets for business to business trading of
commodities. |
| FishMarket Project | The FishMarket Project studies
how to build agent-mediated institutions that may prove useful for
electronic commerce. FishMarket is an electronic auction house, based
upon the traditional fish market, where agents of arbitrary complexity
may trade over a reliable network under fair, robust and lively conditions. |
| Frictionless Value Comparison Engine | The Frictionless Commerce value-comparison
engine is a private-label service to high-traffic Web portals and
commerce sites, including Lycos and digital wallet Brodia. Online
consumers can use Frictionless’ engine to compare and rank products
by selecting individualized criteria, such as product features and
merchant services. This underlying technology enables users to search
for products on the Web based on value, not just price. It also enables
users to compare product features, such as the best zoom lens on a
camcorder, or merchant features such as shipping and return policy. |
| HEDG:
Hyper- Economy Development Group |
HEDG: Hyper-Economy Development
Group is a small distributed research group working on theory and
practical implementation of multi-agent systems combining flows of
knowledge and value data. The HEDG pages at this point are a working
communications medium for the group. |
| ICARIS | Intelligent Commercial and Research
Information Systems (ICARIS) is a resource site for researchers who
are investigating the automated (no human involvement) Business processes,
the design, construction and interoperation of state-of-the-art Business
Information systems and those which might evolve in the future. |
| Industry.Net | Industry.Net is an excellent resource
for business information including the latest uses of agent technology
online. |
| Kasbah | The goal of the Kasbah system is
to help realize a fundamental transformation in the way people transact
goods - from requiring constant monitoring and effort, to a system
where a software agent does most of the work on the user's behalf.
Related papers and links are available here.
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| LetsSell.com | A domain name service, it also
periodically will scour its database and notify you if a name in which
you are interested becomes available. |
| Market
Based Multi Agent Systems Resource Page |
The Market Based Multi Agent Systems
Resource Page includes listings of researchers, groups, research and
publications, systems, tools and general information in the area of
market based or economically inspired computing. |
| MarketNet | MarketNet: A Survivable, Market-Based
Architecture for Large-Scale Information Systems. The MarketNet Project
is developing novel technologies, based on economic mechanisms, to
ensure the systematic, quantifiable and predictable survivability
of large-scale information systems. |
| Negotiation in Electronic Commerce Resources and Projects | A comprehensive page of resources
and projects dedicated to negotiation in electronic commerce protocols,
standards and agents. |
| Office Avatars | The goals of Office Avatars project
is to investigate the use of autonomous avatars in the workplace.
In particular they are interested in the role of an avatar as a personal
representative which can provide useful information or other utility
when the avatar's owner cannot be present. |
| PriceScan | PriceScan is your unbiased guide
to the lowest computer prices. Other sites show you only the prices
they are paid to list. PriceScan shows you all competitive prices. |
| Price Watch (TM) | Price Watch (TM) is the fastest
way to find a great street price on a computer product. Type in the
"search" box or click through category or product lists. The Price
Watch Network allows retailers to advertise their prices in real time,
using their proprietary Price Watch Info-Link system. |
| The
AmEC Initiative |
The Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce
(AmEC) Initiative investigates how software agent technologies can
expedite the electronic commerce revolution. Issues addressed include
distributed component-based marketplaces, open and extensible languages
and protocols for locating and defining goods and services, merchant
differentiation, value-based product comparisons, buying decision
aids, negotiation protocols, visualization of marketplace data and
activities, and issues of trust, reputation, security, marketing,
intermediaries, as well as the socioeconomic implications of next
generation agent-mediated electronic commerce systems. |
| The
Future of Electronic Commerce |
With the announcement of a commercial
Intelligent Agent standard for electronic commerce, these agents are
trained to do work for you while you are not on the Internet. This
site gives an overview and state-of-the-art information on commerce
agents. |
| The JAM Project | The JAM Project is a collaboration
with the Financial Services Consortium (FSTC) including Chase, First
Union and Citibank as well as Columbia University and Florida Tech.
System developments are targeted to Java and are platform independent.
Use of local classifier agents and meta-learning agents allowing financial
institutions to inspect, classify and label each incoming secured
electronic transaction. |
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