This paper focuses on market-like coordination mechanisms in multi-agent systems, with applications to business planning. Several fundamental criteria are derived in order to evaluate market-like coordination mechanisms. The central criterion is the efficient allocation of jobs to agents....

In Electronic Commerce, the intra-organizational coordinationof directly responsible units, e. g. profitcentersor firms within an affiliated group, is of increasingimportance. These organizational units can be modeledwithin a Multi-Agent System (MAS), an interconnectionof autonomous information...