• DocumentCode
    3287207
  • Title

    Automating Contract Negotiation

  • Author

    Debenham, John ; Lawrence, Elaine

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Technol., Sydney
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    7-9 April 2008
  • Firstpage
    143
  • Lastpage
    148
  • Abstract
    The automation of contract negotiation requires intelligent agents that can assimilate and use real-time information flows wisely. Electronic markets are information-rich with access to the Internet and the World Wide Web. A new breed of "information-based" agents are founded on concepts from information theory, and are designed to operate with information flows of varying and questionable integrity. These agents are part of a larger project that aims to make informed automated trading in applications such as eProcurement a reality.
  • Keywords
    Internet; contracts; electronic commerce; electronic trading; multi-agent systems; procurement; Internet; World Wide Web; contract negotiation; electronic market; electronic trading; eprocurement; information flow; information theory; intelligent agent; Consumer electronics; Contracts; Entropy; Information management; Information technology; Information theory; Intelligent agent; Probabilistic logic; Probability distribution; Web sites; Intelligent agents; argumentation; data mining; negotiation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Technology: New Generations, 2008. ITNG 2008. Fifth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Las Vegas, NV
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-3099-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ITNG.2008.34
  • Filename
    4492469