TY - GEN
T1 - Toward an open virtual market place for mobile agents
AU - Esmahi, L.
AU - Dini, P.
AU - Bernard, J. C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1999 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - This paper focuses on the issues involved when multiple mobile agents interact in multiagent systems. The application is an intelligent agent market place, where buyer and seller agents cooperate and compete to process sales transactions for their owners. The market place manager acts as a facilitator by giving necessary information to agents and managing communication between agents, and also as a mediator by proposing solutions to agents or stopping them to get into infinite loops bargaining back and forth. The buyer and seller agents range from using hardcoded logic to rule-based inferencing in their negotiation strategies. However these agents must support some communication skills using KQML or FIPA-ACL. So in contrast with other approaches to multiagent negotiation, we introduce an explicit mediator (market place manager) into the negotiation, and we propose a mediation process based on dependence theory [1] implemented by the manager.
AB - This paper focuses on the issues involved when multiple mobile agents interact in multiagent systems. The application is an intelligent agent market place, where buyer and seller agents cooperate and compete to process sales transactions for their owners. The market place manager acts as a facilitator by giving necessary information to agents and managing communication between agents, and also as a mediator by proposing solutions to agents or stopping them to get into infinite loops bargaining back and forth. The buyer and seller agents range from using hardcoded logic to rule-based inferencing in their negotiation strategies. However these agents must support some communication skills using KQML or FIPA-ACL. So in contrast with other approaches to multiagent negotiation, we introduce an explicit mediator (market place manager) into the negotiation, and we propose a mediation process based on dependence theory [1] implemented by the manager.
KW - E-commerce
KW - Intelligent agents
KW - Mobile agents
KW - Negotiation
KW - Virtual market place
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0037556541&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ENABL.1999.805213
DO - 10.1109/ENABL.1999.805213
M3 - Published Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0037556541
T3 - Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE
SP - 279
EP - 286
BT - Proceedings - IEEE 8th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies
T2 - 8th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE 1999
Y2 - 16 June 1999 through 18 June 1999
ER -