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The Auction Manager: Market Middleware for Large-Scale Electronic Commerce

Tracy Mullen and Michael P. Wellman
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
University of Michigan
1101 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2110 USA
{mullen,wellman}@umich.edu
https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/{mullen,wellman}

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Commerce Infrastructure Overview
  • Description languages for goods
  • Negotiation
  • Infrastructure components
• Market Management Services
  • Market matching
    • Market-specific operators
    • Market-specific inferencing
    • Automatic market arbitrage
  • Notification
  • Data collection and information dissemination
• Market Policies
  • Market creation costs
  • Market selection issues
    • Agents decide
    • Auction manager recommends
• Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments.
• References
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