Simulation of a trading multi-agent system

Author

Mariano, P. ; Pereira, A. ; Correia, L. ; Ribeiro, R. ; Abramov, V. ; Szirbik, N. ; Goossenaerts, J. ; Marwala, T. ; De Wilde, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics, New Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal

Volume

5

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

3378

Abstract

In a trading scenario agents interact with each other, selling and buying resources. In order to control the behavior of the trading scenario, the interactions must be coordinated. We present a brief discussion of communication types and coordination models applicable in multi-agent systems. We find a programmable tuple space more appropriate to manage and rule the interactions between the trading agents. We discuss the advantages of a trading agent model that deals with the trading strategy, concentrating on what to buy or sell. This relieves the agent from the task of coordinating the negotiations and their revoking or acceptances. This is the task of the programmable tuple space

Keywords

electronic commerce; multi-agent systems; software agents; agent model; interactions; multi-agent system; programmable tuple space; trading agents; trading framework; trading scenario; trading strategy; Broadcasting; Communication system control; Educational institutions; Informatics; Insects; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Multiagent systems; Postal services; Proposals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2001 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tucson, AZ

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7087-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2001.972041

Filename

972041