Autonomous agents for participating in multiple on-line auctions Export

@inproceedings{Anthony2001Autonomous, abstract = {The increasing number of online auctions poses a big challenge to e-consumers, especially to those who are actively looking for good deals. In this paper, we present the design of an autonomous agent that can alleviate some of these problems by participating across multiple online auctions (in particular, English, Dutch, and Vickrey auctions). The agent makes decisions on behalf of the consumer and endeavours to guarantee the delivery of the item according to the user's preferences. Our agent monitors and collects information from the ongoing auctions and determines which auction it wishes to participate in. The decision on how much to bid in the selected auction is made based on a series of tactics and strategies. The proposed bidding algorithm has been implemented in a simulated marketplace environment and its performance has been evaluated empirically. 1}, author = {Anthony, Patricia and Hall, Wendy and Dang, Viet D. and Jennings, Nicholas R.}, booktitle = {In Proc IJCAI Workshop on E-Business and Intelligent Web}, citeulike-article-id = {3979213}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.28.8258}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.28.8258}, keywords = {auction, bidding-strategies, ecommerce, simultaneous-auctions}, pages = {54--64}, posted-at = {2009-01-29 15:39:46}, priority = {0}, title = {Autonomous agents for participating in multiple on-line auctions}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.28.8258}, year = {2001} }

TY - CONF ID - Anthony2001Autonomous L3 - citeulike-article-id:3979213 N2 - The increasing number of online auctions poses a big challenge to e-consumers, especially to those who are actively looking for good deals. In this paper, we present the design of an autonomous agent that can alleviate some of these problems by participating across multiple online auctions (in particular, English, Dutch, and Vickrey auctions). The agent makes decisions on behalf of the consumer and endeavours to guarantee the delivery of the item according to the user's preferences. Our agent monitors and collects information from the ongoing auctions and determines which auction it wishes to participate in. The decision on how much to bid in the selected auction is made based on a series of tactics and strategies. The proposed bidding algorithm has been implemented in a simulated marketplace environment and its performance has been evaluated empirically. 1 EP - 64 TI - Autonomous agents for participating in multiple on-line auctions T2 - In Proc IJCAI Workshop on E-Business and Intelligent Web SP - 54 KW - auction KW - bidding-strategies KW - ecommerce KW - simultaneous-auctions AU - Anthony, Patricia AU - Hall, Wendy AU - Dang, Viet AU - Jennings, Nicholas PY - 2001/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.28.8258 ER -