The deregulation of the German energy sector changes transaction relations, trading processes and contract design. We report on the findings of a field research survey conductet in the deregulated German wholsale trading market between April and June 2000.

In this paper, we introduce a prototype approach toautomate the off-exchange trading via (intelligent)software agents. An innovative multi-agent based tradingsystem will be presented that permits the trader to initiateautomated single auctions and/or dynamic negotiationswithin a continuous...

This paper focuses on market-like coordination mechanisms in multi-agent systems, with applications to business planning. Several fundamental criteria are derived in order to evaluate market-like coordination mechanisms. The central criterion is the efficient allocation of jobs to agents....

In Electronic Commerce, the intra-organizational coordinationof directly responsible units, e. g. profitcentersor firms within an affiliated group, is of increasingimportance. These organizational units can be modeledwithin a Multi-Agent System (MAS), an interconnectionof autonomous information...

This paper focuses on market-like coordination mechanisms in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and business planning has been chosen as the application area. Several fundamental criteria are derived in order to evaluate marketlike coordination mechanisms. The central criterion is the efficient...

Recent changes in the German energy policy initiated a deregulation process from a monopolistic to a competitive market, fundamentally changing the market structure, transaction relationships and trading processes. While the mutual exchange of electric energy has been a business activity between...