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

Jiming Liu

Yiming Ye

Part I Marketplace Solutions

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

Gaurav Tewari

Pattie Maes

Economics of Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Marketplace

Giorgos Zacharia

Theodoros Evgeniou

Alexandros Moukas

Petros Boufounos

Pattie Maes

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

Georgia Pinto Barbosa

Fabio Q. B. Silva

Modelling Broker Agents in Electronic Commerce of Multimedia Products and Services

Isabel Gallego

Jaime Delgado

A Brokering Protocol for Electronic Trading

Kwang Mong Sim

Raymond Chan

Price Formation in Double Auctions

Steven Gjerstad

John Dickhaut

Negotiating Agents in Manufacturing Decision Making Processes

P. W. Lei

M. I. Heywood

C. R. Chatwin

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

Lars Rasmusson

Part II Security Issues

Conversational Speech Biometrics

Stephane H. Maes

Jiri Navratil

Upendra V. Chaudhari

Secure Communication for Secure Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Applications

Joris Claessens

Bart Preneel

Joos Vandewalle

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

Ding Peng

Shi Jun

Sheng Huan Ye

Liming Lu

Secure Mobile Agent Digital Signatures with Proxy Certificates

Artur Romao

Miguel Mira da Silva

Agent-Mediated Secure Electronic Transaction for Online Interdependent Purchases

Xun Yi

Chee Kheong Siew

Yuan Miao

An Agent-Based Micropayment System for E-Commerce

T. O. Lee

Y. L. Yip

C. M. Tsang

K. W. Ng

Security Issues in M-Commerce: A Usage-Based Taxonomy

Suresh Chari

Parviz Kermani

Sean Smith

Leandros Tassiulas

Part III Supply and Demand

Towards Distributed Workflow Enactment with Itineraries and Mobile Agent Management

Seng Wai Loke

Arkady Zaslavsky

Enterprise Federation and Its Multi-agent Modelization

Huaglory Tianfield

User-Centered Agents for Structured Information Location

Xindong Wu

Daniel Ngu

Sameer S. Pradhan

Using a Speech Technology Agent as an Interface for E-Commerce

Marie Devlin

Terri Scott

Author Index