Rule-Based Automated Price Negotiation: an Overview and an Experiment
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Recently, the idea of automating e-commerce transactions attracted a lot of interest. Multi-agent systems are one of promising software technologies for achieving this goal. This note discusses rule-based approaches to automated negotiation and presents some experimental results based on our own implementation of a rule-based price negotiation mechanism in a model e-commerce multi-agent system. The experimental scenario considers multiple buyer agents involved in multiple English auctions that are performed in parallel.
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Rule-Based Automated Price Negotiation: Overview and Experiment
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