Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/409
Author(s): Eugénio da Costa Oliveira
Ana Paula Cunha da Rocha
Title: Agents advanced features for negotiation in Electronic Commerce and Virtual Organisations formation process
Issue Date: 2000
Abstract: Electronic commerce technology has changed the way traditional business is being done. Transaction complexity is increasing due both to the huge amount of available information and also to the environment dynamics. Moreover, electronic commerce has enabled the arising of new economical structures, as in the case of virtual organisations. Our research aims at providing flexible and general-purpose systems for intelligent negotiation, both for electronic commerce and virtual organisation formation. This paper proposes an electronic market architecture implemented through a multi-agent system. This architecture includes both a specific market agent which plays the role of market coordinator, as well as agents representing the individual business partners with their own goals and strategies. We also include a sophisticated negotiation protocol through multi-criteria and distributed constraint formalisms. An online, continuous reinforcement learning algorithm has been designed to enable agents to adapt themselves according to the changing environment, including competitor agents.
Subject: Inteligência artificial, Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática
Artificial intelligence, Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering
Scientific areas: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias::Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática
Engineering and technology::Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/409
Source: Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce: An European perspective
Document Type: Capítulo ou Parte de Livro
Rights: openAccess
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Appears in Collections:FEUP - Capítulo ou Parte de Livro

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