The success of electronic markets does not only hinge uponscalable IT platforms combined with extensive marketingcampaigns. Scientists and practitioners tend to agree thatelectronic markets have to be carefully designed, since evensmall failures in design decide on the overall success orfailure...

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...