Decision processes in agent-based automated contracting

John Collins; Corey Bilot; Maria L Gini; Bamshad Mobasher

doi:10.1109/4236.914649

Decision processes in agent-based automated contracting

John Collins, Corey Bilot, Maria L Gini, Bamshad Mobasher

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Business-to-business e-commerce is growing rapidly and moving towards auction based pricing mechanism, inspite of many problems and risk factors evolved in coordinated tasks. To determine the winning bids is the main problem in markets with coordinated tasks as picking the lowest price is not sufficient. The systematic approach reliably finds the optimum bid assignment, at the cost of exponential scalability and anytime controllability. A vocabulary must be developed to allow unambiguous specifications of tasks and bids.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	61-72
Number of pages	12
Journal	IEEE Internet Computing
Volume	5
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/4236.914649
State	Published - Mar 2001

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We gratefully acknowledge partial support for our research from the National Science Foundation, award NSF/ IIS-0084202.

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