Intelligent agents for an artificial market system

This paper describes an agent-based artificial market system whose underlying interaction protocols provide advanced features. Using the system, actors (i.e., customers and merchants) can delegate a variety of tasks to personal intelligent agents that act as their artificial employees. Contrary to other approaches, where a new agent is launched when their associated actors intend to perform a buying or selling transaction and "lives" only while this transaction is processed, our approach builds on a personalization of agents that permanently "live" in the market representing their actors’ interests. Beyond just requesting and proposing an offer, agents in our system maintain a profile of their owners, which is updated upon the actor-agent interaction type. Furthermore, they can proactively ask their owners’ permission to initiate a transaction (e.g., when a new product, which match one’s profile, appears in the market). The system is also enabled with a highl...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: AGENTS
• Authors: Nikos I. Karacapilidis, Pavlos Moraitis
• Keywords: Agent-based Artificial Market, AGENTS 2001, Artificial Market, Market Systems, Security Privacy