Title :
Cultivating the agent economy
Author :
Hanson, James E.
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
Advances in electronic commerce and agent technology are pushing the world rapidly toward ever-increasing e-business automation. The logical development of this movement is agent based electronic commerce, in which software agents act as autonomous (or semi-autonomous) businesses in their own right, buying and selling information goods and services online. We review some of the foreseeable developments and challenges in the growth of agent based electronic commerce
Keywords :
electronic commerce; open systems; software agents; agent based electronic commerce; agent economy; agent technology; e-business automation; electronic commerce; information goods; logical development; semi-autonomous businesses; software agents; Assembly; Automation; Business; Electronic commerce; Humans; Marine vehicles; Ontologies; Pricing; Software agents; Software engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 2001. Proceedings. 5th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1065-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISADS.2001.917408
