The diversity of negotiation types in e-commerce calls for a clear description of the rules that govern them. The participant has to know the rules before engaging in a negotiation, and to this end, a formalism is needed which allows for the serialization and visualization of the rules. Furthermore, this formal description should be executable, in order to simulate the negotiation process and i...

Supply chains are composed of distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous elements, whose relationships are dynamic. Agricultural supply chains, in particular, have a number of distinguishing features e.g., they are characterized by strict regulations to ensure safety of food products, and by the need for multi-level traceability. Contracts in such chains need sophisticated specification and mana...

negotiation, admittance, B2B, e-marketplace, trust, privacy, trust service, credentials The rise of e-marketplaces on the Internet is going to bring a broad new set of business opportunities to enterprises and customers at a fraction of the physical-world costs. However, to be really successful, these e-marketplaces must be open, trusted, fair and transparent. They must be able to convey on-lin...

Recently, we have presented an initial implementation of a model agent-based e-commerce system, which utilized a simple price negotiation mechanism—English Auction. In this note we discuss how a Dutch Auction involving multiple units of a product can be included in our system. We present UML diagrams of agents involved in price negotiations and briefly discuss rule-based mechanism exemplifying ...

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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....

With the spread of e-commerce on a global scale, the development of truly open semantic descriptions of negotiation mechanisms for agent systems generated a lot of interest in the research community. This paper proposes the use of the REWERSE rule-markup language R2ML for semantic modeling of negotiation mechanisms to enable agents to engage in more flexible and open negotiations. Rules are dev...

In this work we propose an ontology to support automated negotiation in multiagent systems. The ontology can be connected with some domain-specific ontologies to facilitate the negotiation in different domains, such as Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), e-commerce, etc. The specific negotiation rules for each type of negotiation strategy can also be defined as part of the ontology, reduc...

Automated negotiation offers new capability for buyers and sellers to efficiently trade goods and services in online markets. In high-dimensional real world negotiations, many agents may communicate with each other over multi-issue products. In this paper, we review soft-computing techniques used in e-negotiation. Although implementation of real world negotiations is very hard but using soft co...

With the emergence of e-business as the next killer application for the Web, automating bargaining-type negotiations between clients (i.e., buyers and sellers) has become increasingly important. With IDEAL (Internetbased Dealmaker for e-business), we have developed an architecture and framework, including a negotiation protocol, for automated negotiations among multiple IDEAL servers. The main ...