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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145799103321

Autore

Veit Daniel J

Titolo

Matchmaking in Electronic Markets : An Agent-Based Approach towards Matchmaking in Electronic Negotiations / / by Daniel J. Veit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2003

ISBN

3-540-39995-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2003.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 180 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; ; 2882

Disciplina

005.1

Soggetti

Software engineering

Artificial intelligence

Information storage and retrieval

Application software

Computers and civilization

Electronic commerce

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

Artificial Intelligence

Information Storage and Retrieval

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Computers and Society

e-Commerce/e-business

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fundamentals & Related Work -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Terminology and Overview -- 3 Related Work -- The Multidimensional Matchmaking Approach -- 4 Matchmaking Architecture -- 5 Matchmaking Implementation -- Application, Evaluation & Outlook -- 6 Application in a Real-World Market -- 7 Empirical Evaluation -- 8 Conclusions and Outlook.

Sommario/riassunto

Electronic negotiations concern transactions on the basis of electronic media, such as the Internet. Platforms have been developed to aid participants in electronic markets during the agreement phase. The key



activity in this is the matching of offers and requests, for which we need a ranking of the alternatives. In this book the author defines a framework in which a ranking can be generated in order to acquire an optimal decision for a desired transaction - this process is called matchmaking. The author introduces a generic framework for multidimensional, multiattribute matchmaking, its implementation, and an analysis of it. The genericity of the author’s approach means that the implementation, realized as a multiagent system, can represent both offering and requesting agents, and the framework can be applied to a huge variety of applications. The use cases in the book are derived from the human resources domain, and thus involve quite complex matchmaking. The author’s presentation is thorough and self-contained. He provides definitions of the relevant business and computer science terms, and detailed explanations of the underlying mathematical tools and software implementations.