Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV. Designing Mechanisms and Systems

Auctions.- A Comparison among Bidding Algorithms for Multiple Auctions.- Bidtree Ordering in IDA Combinatorial Auction Winner-Determination with Side Constraints.- Differential-Revelation VCG Mechanisms for Combinatorial Auctions.- An English Auction Protocol for Multi-attribute Items.- Effectiveness of Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Auctions.- Auctions for Divisible Resources: Price Functions, Nash Equilibrium, and Decentralized Update Schemes.- Price-Based Information Certificates for Minimal-Revelation Combinatorial Auctions.- Co-evolutionary Auction Mechanism Design: A Preliminary Report.- ATTac-2001: A Learning, Autonomous Bidding Agent.- Negotiation.- A Software Infrastructure for Negotiation within Inter-organisational Alliances.- The Influence of Information on Negotiation Equilibrium.- Using an Annealing Mediator to Solve the Prisoners' Dilemma in the Negotiation of Complex Contracts.- Automated Negotiation in Many-to-Many Markets for Imperfectly Substitutable Goods.- An Ontology Based Approach to Automated Negotiation.- Markets.- Goodwill Hunting: An Economically Efficient Online Feedback Mechanism for Environments with Variable Product Quality.- Guaranteeing Properties for E-commerce Systems.- An Extensible Agent Architecture for a Competitive Market-Based Allocation of Consumer Attention Space.- Self-Enforcing Strategic Demand Reduction.- Skeletal Jade Components for the Construction of Institutions.- Challenges in Large-Scale Open Agent Mediated Economies.