Agents that buy and sell

Communications of the ACMPublished 1 March 1999Open access

Pattie Maes, Robert Guttman, Alexandros Moukas

DOI10.1145/295685.295716

Source URL

Citations799

SJR quartileQ1

SJR score1.15

SNIP3.34

View PDF

TL;DR

Software agent technologies can be used to automate several of the most time-consuming stages of the buying process, and help optimize the whole buying experience, revolutionizing commerce as the authors know it.

Abstract

article Free Access Share on Agents that buy and sell Authors: Pattie Maes MIT Media Lab MIT Media LabView Profile , Robert H. Guttman Frictionless Commerce, Inc. Frictionless Commerce, Inc.View Profile , Alexandros G. Moukas MIT Media Lab MIT Media LabView Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 42Issue 3March 1999 pp 81–ff.https://doi.org/10.1145/295685.295716Published:01 March 1999Publication History 566citation5,737DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations566Total Downloads5,737Last 12 Months294Last 6 weeks40 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteView all FormatsPDF

Keywords

Computer ScienceDecision Sciences

ScienceThe Evolution of Cooperation

20,254 Citations1981Robert Axelrod, W D Hamilton

Social information filtering

2,800 Citations1995Upendra Shardanand, Pattie Maes

The implementation of a networked system called Ringo, which makes personalized recommendations for music albums and artists, and four different algorithms for making recommendations by using social information filtering were tested and compared.

View PDF

Communications of the ACMAgents that reduce work and information overload

2,321 Citations1994Pattie Maes

Results from several prototype agents that have been built using an approach to building interface agents are presented, including agents that provide personalized assistance with meeting scheduling, email handling, electronic news filtering, and selection of entertainment.

Journal of Logic and ComputationAgents that reason and negotiate by arguing

657 Citations1998Simon Parsons

A framework, based upon a system of argumentation, which permits agents to negotiate in order to establish acceptable ways of solving problems and describes a case study of this relationship for a particular class of architectures (namely those for belief-desire-intention agents).

A scalable comparison-shopping agent for the World-Wide Web

507 Citations1997Robert B. Doorenbos, Oren Etzioni +1 more

ShopBot, a fully-implemented, domainindependent comparison-shopping agent that relies on a combination of heuristic search, pattern matching, and inductive learning techniques, enables users to both find superior prices and substantially reduce Web shopping time.

Collaborative reputation mechanisms in electronic marketplaces

332 Citations2003Giorgos Zacharia, Alexandros Moukas +1 more

Lecture notes in computer scienceAgent-Mediated Integrative Negotiation for Retail Electronic Commerce

215 Citations1999Robert Guttman, Pattie Maes

This paper analyzes approaches from economic, behavioral, and software agent perspectives then proposes integrative negotiation as a more suitable approach to retail electronic commerce and identifies promising techniques for implementing agent-mediated Integrative negotiation.

Lecture notes in computer scienceA real-life experiment in creating an agent marketplace

157 Citations1997Adrian Chavez, Danielle Dreilinger +2 more

This paper describes the set-up of the experiment, the architecture of the electronic market and the behaviours of the agents, and discusses the rationale behind the design decisions and analyzes the results obtained.

International Journal of Electronic CommerceAgent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: An MIT Media Laboratory Perspective

132 Citations2000Alexandros Moukas, Giorgos Zacharia +2 more

This paper gives an overview of the work at MIT’s Media Laboratory on several types of agents for electronic commerce, ranging from consumer-to-consumer “smart” classified-ad systems to merchant agents that provide integrative negotiation capabilities.