CM30174: E-commerce & agents Department of Computer Science LINKS

Lecture material

1. Most of the lecture material comes from Mike Wooldridge and all the slides can be downloaded from http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw/pubs/imas/distrib/.
2. Other topics: institutions, AOSE and applications (supporting material: case study 1, case study 2, case study 3, introduction to GAIA.

Mechanisms

1. an article about the US airwave spectrum auctions from the National Academy of Sciences
2. a survey of kinds of auctions and an evaluation of their strengths and weaknesses from an e-commerce perspective

Software/agent platforms

1. Jade
2. FIPA/OS
3. Zeus
4. April
5. Prometheus Design Tool

Books

1. Mike Wooldridge's Introduction to Multi-Agent Systems pages

Applications of agents

1. The estar project uses agents to help manage telescopes.