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....components are introduced. Section 3.2 deals with agent interaction and in section 3.3 interfaces are shown. 3.1 System Components A system of cooperating agents [10, p. 57] is designed to meet the requirements of distributed information retrieval (see Fig. 3, distributed agent approach [7]) Three different types of agents (for an overview on the topic of software agents see [2, 3, 8] can be identified: A user agent (UA) is located on the PC of the questioner. The user agent processes the user input, validates the entered requests, and assigns each request to a request agent. ....

T. Mullen and M. P. Wellman. Some Issues in the Design of Market-Oriented Agents. In M. Wooldridge, J. P. Muller, and M. Tambe, editors, Intelligent Agents II. Springer, 1996.

....a proactive messaging system based on forwarders databases is implemented. 3 System Architecture 3.1 System Components A system of cooperating agents [15, p. 57] is designed to meet the requirements of distributed information retrieval (see Fig. 5 and Fig. 6, distributed agent approach [11, 10]) Three different types of agents (for an overview on the topic of software agents see [3, 4, 12, 7] can be identified: A user agent (UA) is running on the system of the questioner. The user agent processes the user input, validates the entered requests, and assigns each request to a ....

T. Mullen and M. P. Wellman, Some Issues in the Design of Market-Oriented Agents. In M. Wooldridge, J. P. Muller, and M. Tambe, editors, Intelligent Agents II, Springer, Berlin, 1996.

....attributes. We now formulate the design economy problem so that it can be mapped on to a general equilibrium model. By formulating the design problem in the context of general equilibrium theory we can deploy the techniques used in economics to ascertain the global properties of the design system [5]. The global properties are of interest since they represent the final design configuration generated by the design economy. The aforementioned mapping is defined by three basic entities: 1) consumers, 2) producers and 3) commodities. In the following discussion, we first introduce the concept of ....

T. Mullen and M. P. Wellman, "Some issues in the design of market-oriented agents," in Intelligent Agents II: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, Springer-Verlag,, 1996.

....with other agents and the environment. The interactions with other agents and the environment deal mainly with the exchange of services, and peer to peer communication is primarily the means for arranging such exchanges. In this sense, Plegma is based on a society of marketoriented agents [56]. We can identify three main constituents in Plegma: customers (or requesters) shops (providers) and the marketplace (Plegma infrastructure) These main building blocks are represented by different Plegma agents as depicted in a simplified view in Figure 1. E. Kaldoudi, M. Zikos, E. Leisch, ....

....process based on the market metaphor [67,68,69] and is realized through negotiations of the analyzers and the execution agents. The combination of market oriented and agent oriented programming offers many advantages including increased flexibility based on dynamically re configurable agents [56]. Moreover, it promotes modularity and simplicity of design since agents make decisions based only on local rather than global information. It is also a natural model when agents are designed, implemented or owned by different companies and or individuals. The Plegma coordination model for task ....

T. Mullen, and M.P. Wellman, "Some Issues in the Design of Market-Oriented Agents". In: M. Wooldridge, J. Mueller, and M. Tambe (eds.), "Intelligent Agents: Theories, Architectures, and Languages. Volume II", Springer-Verlag, 1996.

.... systems, following nomenclature established by the researchers at the Santa Fe institute (Holland and Mimnaugh 1996, Kauffman 1993) The initial idea for this study is from Holland and Mimnaugh, where they suggest that Genetic Algorithms could be combined with an economic agent (Wellman 1996, Mullen and Wellman 1996) to solve complex systems problems. However, the Echo agent discussed in Holland and Mimnaugh s work lacks essential elements of the Wellman economic agent model, and Holland never followed up on his idea. This paper is an attempt to do some work in this area. The essential enhancement obtained ....

Mullen, Tracy and Wellman, Michael P. Some Issues in the Design of Market-Oriented Agents. In M. Wooldridge, J. Mueller, and M. Tambe (eds.), Intelligent Agents II: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, Berlin SpringerVerlag, 1996.

.... limiting the complexity of the problem, and mathematical models that can yield new insights into resource sharing problems [24,25] The combination of market oriented and agent oriented programming offers many advantages including increased flexibility based on dynamically re configurable agents [26]. Moreover, it promotes modularity and simplicity of design since agents make decisions based only on local rather than global information. Upon request for an algorithm execution, the management agent initializes an auction . The request is forwarded to the appropriate bidders , i.e. those ....

T. Mullen, and M.P. Wellman, "Some Issues in the Design of Market-Oriented Agents". In: M. Wooldridge, J. Mueller, and M. Tambe (eds.), "Intelligent Agents: Theories, Architectures, and Languages. Volume II", Springer-Verlag, 1996.

....of limited resources to multiple agents. For example, we have all experienced large time lags in response to Internet queries because of network congestion. Economics based mechanisms have been utilized in MAS to address problems of resource allocation (the central theme of economic research) [102, 128, 71]. Economics based approaches, and market mechanisms in particular, are becoming increasingly attractive to MAS researchers both because of the ready availability of underlying formal models, but also because of their potential applicability in Internet based commerce. In such approaches, agents ....

T. Mullen and M. P. Wellman. Some issues in the design of market-oriented agents. In M. Wooldridge, J. P. Muller, and M. Tambe, editors, Intelligent Agents II (LNAI 1037), pages 283--298. Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg, Germany, 1996.

.... of the Internet has spurred a number of attempts to create a virtual marketplace, where agents, both human controlled and equipped with intelligent algorithms, can participate in trading of physical and electronic goods, as well as stocks and other investment vehicles [ Borenstein, 1996, Mullen and Wellman, 1996 ] Many researchers as well as com1 mercial companies have created intelligent agent based systems that support various aspects of electronic commerce such as online shopping and virtual catalogs. For example, currently there are several intelligent agent based online shopping services [ Chavez ....

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