The Role of Middle-Agents in Electronic Commerce

Itai Yarom; Jeffrey S. Rosenschein; Claudia V. Goldman

doi:10.1109/MIS.2003.1249165

The Role of Middle-Agents in Electronic Commerce

Itai Yarom^*, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Claudia V. Goldman

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The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science

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Abstract

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.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	15-21
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Intelligent Systems
Volume	18
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2003.1249165
State	Published - Nov 2003

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