Software agents (SA) could be useful in forming buyers' groups since humans have considerable difficulty in finding Pareto-optimal deals (no buyer can be better without another being worse) in negotiation situations. Then what are the computational and economical performances of SA for a...

Agent and multiagent systems are nowadays a very active field of research although it has emerged in eighties. This field is in fact a very multidisciplinary field since it is sustained by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, etc. It focuses mainly on...

While most e-commerce research focuses on one market based problems, less work has been done on multimarket aggregation. Nowadays it is important to address the multimarket package e-procurement problem if we want to acquire a combination of goods and services from different suppliers and...

Available resources can often be limited with regard to the number of demands. In this paper we propose an approach for solving this problem which consists of using the mechanisms of multi-item auctions for allocating the resources to a set of software agents. We consider the resource problem as...

Today, the web requires software that can operate on heterogeneous sources of information which are generally located in an open and dynamic environment (e.g., the internet). It also requires to reconsider some complex applications (as for instance, digital libraries, bank services, insurance...

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