Toward an open virtual market place for mobile agents

L. Esmahi, P. Dini, J. C. Bernard

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    Abstract

    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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE 8th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies
    Subtitle of host publicationInfrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE 1999
    Pages279-286
    Number of pages8
    ISBN (Electronic)0769503659
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1999
    Event8th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE 1999 - Stanford, United States
    Duration: 16 Jun. 199918 Jun. 1999

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE
    Volume1999-June
    ISSN (Print)1524-4547

    Conference

    Conference8th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE 1999
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityStanford
    Period16/06/9918/06/99

    Keywords

    • E-commerce
    • Intelligent agents
    • Mobile agents
    • Negotiation
    • Virtual market place

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