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Electronic and mobile trading environments are saturated with information from the Internet and the World Wide Web. This paper proposes agents that can assimilate and use real-time information flows wisely to automate contract negotiation reliably. A new breed of “information-based” agents are founded on concepts from information theory, and are designed to operate with information flows of varying and questionable integrity. These agents are part of a larger project that aims to make informed automated trading in applications such as electronic or mobile procurement a reality.
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Lawrence, E., Debenham, J. (2010). Information Theory Based Intelligent Agents. In: García-Pedrajas, N., Herrera, F., Fyfe, C., Benítez, J.M., Ali, M. (eds) Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems. IEA/AIE 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6097. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13025-0_41
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