Agent-mediated electronic commerce VI : theories for and engineering of distributed mechanisms and systems : AAMAS 2004 workshop, AMEC 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004 : revised selected papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, AMEC 2006, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2004 as part of AAMAS 2004. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 39 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers bring together novel work from such diverse fields as Computer Science, Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Systems that focus on modeling, implementation and evaluation of computational trading institution and/or agent strategies over a diverse set of goods. They are organized in topical sections on mechanism design, trading agents, and tools. Front Matter....Pages - Revenue Failures and Collusion in Combinatorial Auctions and Exchanges with VCG Payments....Pages 1-14 A Mechanism for Multiple Goods and Interdependent Valuations....Pages 15-29 A Budget-Balanced, Incentive-Compatible Scheme for Social Choice....Pages 30-43 An Options-Based Method to Solve the Composability Problem in Sequential Auctions....Pages 44-58 “CONFESS”. Eliciting Honest Feedback Without Independent Verification Authorities....Pages 59-72 Generalized Knapsack Solvers for Multi-unit Combinatorial Auctions: Analysis and Application to Computational Resource Allocation....Pages 73-86 Designing Auctions for Deliberative Agents....Pages 87-100 An Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Comparison of Two Double-Auction Market Designs....Pages 101-114 Auctions and Bidding with Information....Pages 115-128 Multi-attribute Bilateral Bargaining in a One-to-Many Setting....Pages 129-142 Bidding for Customer Orders in TAC SCM....Pages 143-157 Agents’ Strategies for the Dual Parallel Search in Partnership Formation Applications....Pages 158-172 Three Automated Stock-Trading Agents: A Comparative Study....Pages 173-187 Specifying and Monitoring Market Mechanisms Using Rights and Obligations....Pages 188-201 iAuctionMaker: A Decision Support Tool for Mixed Bundling....Pages 202-214 Back Matter....Pages - '6th Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC VI) held in conjunction with the 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)'--Pref.