"Despite the recent misfortunes of many dotcoms, e-commerce will have major and lasting effects on economic activity. But the rise and fall in the valuations of the first wave of e-commerce companies show that vague promises of distant profits are insufficient. Only business models based on...

Despite the recent misfortunes of many dotcoms, e-commerce will have major and lasting effects on economic activity. But the rise and fall in the valuations of the first wave of e-commerce companies show that vague promises of distant profits are insufficient. Only business models based on sound...

In this paper, we present a detailed description of intelligent software agents. We depict both search as well as negotiation agents and show how the use of theoretical concepts previously exclusive to the economic theory of bargaining and auctions can immensely improve their performance. We...