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Multi Agent Transactional Negotiation: Application to E-marketing

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We propose a multi-agent transactional paradigm based on object-based rule systems for realising distributed agent negotiation protocols in E-marketing. The construction of the protocol is carried out in two stages: first expressing a program into an object-based rule system and then converting the rule applications into a set of transactions on a database of active objects. Also, an algorithm to prove termination of the negotiation among the agents is described.

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  1. School of Computer Science, UNSW@ADFA, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT, 2600, Australia

    V. K. Murthy & R. Abeydeera

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    John Plaice

  2. Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128 succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Peter G. Kropf

  3. Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Ulm, James Frank Ring 0-27, 89069, Ulm, Germany

    Peter Schulthess

  4. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1W5, Canada

    Jacob Slonim

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Murthy, V.K., Abeydeera, R. (2002). Multi Agent Transactional Negotiation: Application to E-marketing. In: Plaice, J., Kropf, P.G., Schulthess, P., Slonim, J. (eds) Distributed Communities on the Web. DCW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2468. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36261-4_15

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