An Architecture for Assembling Agents that Participate in Alternative Heterogeneous Auctions

Dumas, Marlon, Governatori, Guido, ter Hofstede, Arthur H. M. and Russell, Nick (2002). An Architecture for Assembling Agents that Participate in Alternative Heterogeneous Auctions. In: Yanchun Zhang, Amjad Umar, Ee-Peng Lim and Ming-Chien Shan, PROCEEDINGS - GREAT LAKES SYMPOSIUM ON VLSI. 12th International Workshop on Reseach Issues in Data Engineering (RIDE-2EC 2002), San Jose, (75-83). 24 -25 February, 2002.

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Author Dumas, Marlon
Governatori, Guido
ter Hofstede, Arthur H. M.
Russell, Nick
Title of paper An Architecture for Assembling Agents that Participate in Alternative Heterogeneous Auctions
Conference Paper Type Fully Published Paper
Conference name 12th International Workshop on Reseach Issues in Data Engineering (RIDE-2EC 2002)
DOI 10.1109/RIDE.2002.995101
Conference location San Jose
Conference dates 24 -25 February, 2002
Proceedings title PROCEEDINGS - GREAT LAKES SYMPOSIUM ON VLSI
Journal name Twelfth International Workshop On Research Issues in Data Engineering: Engineering E-Commerce/e-Business Systems
Editor Yanchun Zhang
Amjad Umar
Ee-Peng Lim
Ming-Chien Shan
Place published Los Alamitos, California
Publisher IEEE Computer Society
Publication date 2002
ISBN 978-3-540-35440-6
ISSN 1066-1395
Start page 75
End page 83
Total pages 9
Language eng
Abstract/Summary This paper addresses the issue of developing agents capable of participating in several potentially simultaneous auctions of different kinds (English, First-Price, Vickrey), with the goal of finding the best price for an item on behalf of their users. Specifically, a multi-agent architecture is proposed, in which a manager agent cooperates with several expert agents, each specialised in a specific kind of auction. The expert agents communicate their knowledge to the manager agent in the form of probability functions, capturing the likelihood that a bid of a given price may win an auction. Given a set of such functions, the manager agent builds a bidding plan that it executes in concert with the expert agents.
Subjects 350202 Business Information Systems (incl. Data Processing)
280499 Computation Theory and Mathematics not elsewhere classified
280210 Simulation and Modelling
280100 Information Systems
Keyword e-commerce
auctions
Q-Index Code E1
Q-Index Status Provisional Code
Institutional Status Unknown
Additional Notes Copyright (c) 2002 IEEE.

 
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