We have analyzed the impact of agents and their trading strategies on an experimental asset market. To this end, we added an XML-interface to an existing electronic market and implemented artificial agents which acted as elements of disturbance in the trading process. These artificial traders applied simple and constant strategies which may sometimes appear to be „rational“ or random to the eye...

In settings such as electronic markets where trading partners have conflicting interests and a desire to cooperate, mobile agent mediated negotiation have become very popular. However, agent-based negotiation in electronic commerce involves the exchange of critical and sensitive data that must be highly safeguarded. Therefore, in order to give benefits of quick and safe trading to the trading p...

Electronic trading of equities and other securities makes heavy use of “arrival price” algorithms, that determine optimal trade schedules by balancing the market impact cost of rapid execution against the volatility risk of slow execution. In the standard formulation, mean-variance optimal strategies are static: they do not modify the execution speed in response to price motions observed during...

Electronic Commerce has been a very significant commercial phenomenon in recent years, and autonomous agents are widely adopted by business or individuals in electronic marketplaces to fulfill time consuming tasks in trading. Agent negotiation mechanisms are usually applied between conflicted agents in order to reach a mutually beneficial agreement. Prediction of trading agents' strategies and ...

Recent years have seen a rapid expansion of electronic trading over the Internet. A wide range of different business models is being used in this process, including auctions, E-Malls and ECommunities. Until now, the existing systems focus on selling from the original producer / issuer to the end consumer. But there are other markets, which are for reselling products. In this situation of resale...