TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Middle-Agents in Electronic Commerce
AU - Yarom, Itai
AU - Rosenschein, Jeffrey S.
AU - Goldman, Claudia V.
PY - 2003/11
Y1 - 2003/11
N2 - The increasing role of middle agents and intermediaries as an InfoCenter, in the e-commerce era is discussed. These agents help with information flow in e-markets, by dealing with requests and enhancing other agent's capabilities. An InfoCenter buys information form information suppliers, sell it to information consumers and obtain manipulated information from information service providers. An InfoCenter responds to the market demand for an information commodity and plans a way to make it available.
AB - The increasing role of middle agents and intermediaries as an InfoCenter, in the e-commerce era is discussed. These agents help with information flow in e-markets, by dealing with requests and enhancing other agent's capabilities. An InfoCenter buys information form information suppliers, sell it to information consumers and obtain manipulated information from information service providers. An InfoCenter responds to the market demand for an information commodity and plans a way to make it available.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0346896325&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MIS.2003.1249165
DO - 10.1109/MIS.2003.1249165
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AN - SCOPUS:0346896325
SN - 1094-7167
VL - 18
SP - 15
EP - 21
JO - IEEE Intelligent Systems
JF - IEEE Intelligent Systems
IS - 6
ER -