Conversations involving three or more agents often occur in multi-agent systems, for example in brokering and auction protocols typically used in e-commerce. For developing agents ...
We present a generalized market architecture that provides support for a variety of types of transactions, from simple buying and selling of goods and services to complex multi-age...
John Collins, Ben Youngdahl, Scott Jamison, Bamsha...
Online auctions of governmental bonds and CO2 certificates are challenged by high availability requirements in face of high peak loads around the auction deadline. Traditionally, t...
Guenther Starnberger, Lorenz Froihofer, Karl M. G&...
Internet search companies sell advertisement slots based on users’ search queries via an auction. Advertisers have to solve a complex optimization problem of how to place bids o...
Large-scale competitive P2P networks are threatened by the noncooperation problem,1 where peers do not forward queries to potential competitors. Non-cooperation will be a growing ...
Beverly Yang, Tyson Condie, Sepandar D. Kamvar, He...