Information and interaction in MarketSpace| towards an open agent-based market infrastructure
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چکیده
The lack of structure of information and interaction in current web-based electronic commerce makes partial or full automation infeasible. We describe the rst steps towards an open agent-based market infrastructure, with well-deened information and interaction models allowing agents to locate relevant market participants, exchange interests, and negotiate deals. We also describe an architecture and a prototype based on these ideas, and illustrate the operation of the prototype in an example scenario.
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