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Title:
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WAGE A WEB SERVICES AND AGENT-BASED GENERIC AUCTIONING ENVIRONMENT |
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Author(s):
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Nausheen Saba Khuram, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Awais Majeed |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-23-6 |
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Editors:
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António Palma dos Reis and Ajith P. Abraham |
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Year:
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2010 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Agent-based Auctioning, Web service architecture, Generic auctioning, Internet Auctions, Interoperability. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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129 |
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Last Page:
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133 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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During the last few years online auctioning ranks among the top electronic commerce mechanisms in terms of revenue and is enjoying impressive resonance in a variety of goods and services globally. To this end, we focus our efforts in designing a generic mechanism for online auctioning, rather than the ad-hoc approaches that are widely in use to serve one (or a few) specific problems. The proposed generic infrastructure is envisioned to serve as an API or a tool for building different types of auctions, with different parameters and for different types of entities. Within the context of this work we study the existing auctioning mechanisms and, consequently, decide on a software architecture that would allow for the development of different auctioning scenarios upon developer demand. In order to ensure the versatility and expandability of the system, Web services are employed as the core architectural primitive. Based on their autonomous and communicative nature, Software Agents are employed to support online auctions, used as actors impersonating/ representing users in the system. This way, researchers only have to focus on developing efficient auctioning strategies, without troubling themselves on the environment their agents will operate in. After adopting the appropriate (already developed) interface, they can benchmark their agents performance in any environment and under any constraints they want. |
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