Negotiating with suppliers and with customers is a key part of supply chain management. However, with recent technological advances, the mechanisms available to carry out such activities have become increasingly sophisticated, and the environment in which these activities take place has become...

With the growing number of marketplaces and trading partners in the e-commerce environment, software tools designed to act on behalf of human traders are increasingly being used to automate trading activities. This paper describes a model for constructing trading engines which are capable of...