E-Commerce Agents

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VI

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2. Introduction to E-Commerce Agents: Marketplace Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand

   1. Introduction to E-Commerce Agents: Marketplace Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand

      • Jiming Liu, Yiming Ye

      Pages 1-6

3. Marketplace Solutions

   1. A Generalized Platform for the Specification, Valuation, and Brokering of Heterogeneous Resources in Electronic Markets

      • Gaurav Tewari, Pattie Maes

      Pages 7-24

   2. Economics of Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Marketplace

      • Giorgos Zacharia, Theodoros Evgeniou, Alexandros Moukas, Petros Boufounos, Pattie Maes

      Pages 25-38

   3. An Electronic Marketplace Architecture Based on Technology of Intelligent Agents and Knowledge

      • Georgia Pinto Barbosa, Fabio Q. B. Silva

      Pages 39-60

   4. Modelling Broker Agents in Electronic Commerce of Multimedia Products and Services

      • Isabel Gallego, Jaime Delgado

      Pages 61-81

   5. A Brokering Protocol for Electronic Trading

      • Kwang Mong Sim, Raymond Chan

      Pages 82-105

   6. Price Formation in Double Auctions

      • Steven Gjerstad, John Dickhaut

      Pages 106-134

   7. Negotiating Agents in Manufacturing Decision Making Processes

      • P. W. Lei, M. I. Heywood, C. R. Chatwin

      Pages 135-153

   8. Evaluating Resource Bundle Derivatives for Multi-agent Negotiation of Resource Allocation

      • Lars Rasmusson

      Pages 154-165

4. Security Issues

   1. Conversational Speech Biometrics

      • Stéphane H. Maes, Jiří Navrátil, Upendra V. Chaudhari

      Pages 166-179

   2. Secure Communication for Secure Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Applications

      • Joris Claessens, Bart Preneel, Joos Vandewalle

      Pages 180-190

   3. MA/LMA Architecture for Dealing with Malicious Agents in Agent-Mediated Electronic Markets

      • Ding Peng, Shi Jun, Sheng Huan Ye, Liming Lu

      Pages 191-205

   4. Secure Mobile Agent Digital Signatures with Proxy Certificates

      • Artur Romão, Miguel Mira da Silva

      Pages 206-220

   5. Agent-Mediated Secure Electronic Transaction for Online Interdependent Purchases

      • Xun Yi, Chee Kheong Siew, Yuan Miao

      Pages 221-246

   6. An Agent-Based Micropayment System for E-Commerce

      • T.O. Lee, Y.L. Yip, C.M. Tsang, K.W. Ng

      Pages 247-263

   7. Security Issues in M—Commerce: A Usage—Based Taxonomy

      • Suresh Chari, Parviz Kermani, Sean Smith, Leandros Tassiulas

      Pages 264-282

5. Supply and Demand

   1. Towards Distributed Workflow Enactment with Itineraries and Mobile Agent Management

      • Seng Wai Loke, Arkady Zaslavsky

      Pages 283-294

   2. Enterprise Federation and Its Multi-agent Modelization

      • Huaglory Tianfield

      Pages 295-322

   3. User-Centered Agents for Structured Information Location

      • Xindong Wu, Daniel Ngu, Sameer S. Pradhan

      Pages 323-331

Among the many changes brought by the Internet is the emergence of electronic commerce over the Web. E-commerce activities, such as the online exchange of information, services, and products, are opening up completely new opportunities for business, at new levels of productivity and profitability. In parallel with the emergence of e-commerce, intelligent software agents as entities capable of independent action in open, unpredictable environments have matured into a promising new technology. Quite naturally, e-commerce agents hold great promise for exploiting the Internet's full potential as an electronic marketplace. The 20 coherently written chapters in this book by leading researchers and professionals present the state of the art in agent-mediated e-commerce. Researchers, professionals, and advanced students interested in e-commerce or agent technology will find this book an indispensable source of information and reference.

• E-Commerce
• Electronic Market
• Internet
• Signatur
• Web
• agents
• biometrics
• electronic commerce
• modeling
• multimedia
• online
• productivity
• security
• software agent
• technology

• Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China

  Jiming Liu

• IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, USA

  Yiming Ye

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