Autonomous Systems of Trade Agents in E-Commerce (ASTA)

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Deliverables 2000, Quarter 3

Some papers may only be accessible by members of the Trade Agents project.

[0D1.3] Equilibrium Selection in Alternating-Offers Bargaining Models: The Evolutionary Computing Approach
Scientific report on adaptive agent systems, concerning single-issue negotiations and validation with game theory, including deadline and time-discounting effects.

[0D1.4] Evolving Automata Negotiate with a Variety of Opponents (restricted access only)
Scientific report on adaptive agent systems, concerning negotiation strategies against multiple types of opponents.

[0D4.5] Stand-alone Java implementation (restricted access only)
Technical report describes the suggested architecture for both business cases in a the stand-alone java implementation. This report extends the architecture of 0D4.1 to 4 models: data, communication, agent, and services models.

[0D4.6] Experiments with a client-server architecture (restricted access only)
Technical report describing a standard for a client-server architecture based on servlets, the servers Tomcat and Apache. This is a technical working document describing the technology, required installations, experiments for implementation aspects for e-commerce applications, experiences with installation and experiments.

[0D4.7] Aglets Evaluation Report (restricted access only)
Technical report describing Aglets technology and development environment for autonomous and mobile agents from IBM. This is a technical working document describing the technology, architecture, API, installation and experiments for application in the business cases.

[0D4.8] Security Aspects of the TNO-TPD Trade Agents Model (restricted access only)
Technical report on the analysis of the system architecture of 0D4.1 on several security aspects that are specific to e-commerce and agents; agent security, privacy protection, payment services. This report also indicates where privacy enhancing technologies are necessary.