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The idea of automating e-commerce transactions attracted a lot of interest during the last years. Multi-agent systems are claimed to be one of promising software technologies for achieving this goal. In this paper we summarize state-of-the-art in rule-based approaches to automated negotiations and present initial experimental results with our own implementation of a rule-based price negotiation mechanism in a model e-commerce multi-agent system. The experimental scenario considers multiple buyer agents involved in multiple English auctions that are performed in parallel.
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Bădică, C., Ganzha, M., Paprzycki, M. (2006). Rule-Based Automated Price Negotiation: Overview and Experiment. In: Rutkowski, L., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L.A., Żurada, J.M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing – ICAISC 2006. ICAISC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4029. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11785231_110
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