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Trends of internet auctions and agent-mediated Web commerce

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Electronic Commerce (EC) is a promising field for applying agent and Artificial Intelligence technologies. In this article, we give an overview of the trends of Internet auctions and agent-mediated Web commerce. We describe the theoretical backgrounds of auction protocols and introduce several Internet auction sites. Furthermore, we describe various activities aimed toward utilizing agent technologies in EC and the trends in standardization efforts on agent technologies.

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  1. NTT Communication Science Laboratories, 2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho Soraku-gun, 619-0237, Kyoto, Japan

    Makoto Yokoo

  2. Internet Systems Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, 4-1-1 Miyazaki, Miyamae-ku Kawasaki, 216-8555, Kanagawa, Japan

    Satoru Fujita

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Makoto Yokoo, Ph.D.: He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering, in 1984 and 1986, respectively, from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering in 1995 from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a distinguished technical member in NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. He was a visiting research scientist at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from 1990 to 1991. His current research interests include multi-agent systems, search, and constraint satisfaction.

Satoru Fujita, D.Eng.: He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1984 and 1986, respectively. He also received his D.Eng. from the University of Tokyo in 1989 for his research on context comprehension in natural language understanding. He joined NEC Corporation in 1989, and is now a principal researcher of Internet Systems Research Laboratories of NEC. He is engaged in research on mobile agents, distributed systems and Web services.

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Yokoo, M., Fujita, S. Trends of internet auctions and agent-mediated Web commerce. New Gener Comput 19, 369–388 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03037574

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