Online trading has become an important topic in research and general public. As current trading platforms like eBay or Amazon usually require human interaction, these platforms haver several drawbacks when the trading process is completely automated using software agents. This paper outlines the...

The still growing use of Internet technologies and corporate software shape the structure of the software industry. While versions of the Computational Grid or service orientated architectures promise systems and environments where users merely access software in a plug-and-play-manner,...

The overall change in computing from manipulation to delegation was already predicted in the mid-90s but hitherto remains a bold vision. Although software agents have the potential of fully automating processes, real world agent-based applications are very limited in number. Even in the case of...

An electronic negotiation is a request-and-offer based communication process between agents in a market aiming at an agreement for a mutual consent deal. The process breaks in several phases, one of which is matchmaking. Matchmaking includes the determination of the relevance of a specific offer...

The results of recent studies on prediction markets are encouraging. Prior experience demonstrates that markets with different incentive schemes predicted uncertain future events at a remarkable accuracy. In this paper, we study the impact of different monetary incentives on prediction accuracy...