Information Flow and Usage in an E-shop Operating withinan Agent-based E-commerce System
Michał Drozdowicz, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Maciej Gawinecki, Andrei A. Legalov · 2009
1. Typically, only price negotiation of a single item (or collection of items treated as subject of a “single transaction”) is contemplated (even though the negotiation itself may follow a very complicated set of rules; e.g. two stage negotiation found in [22]). Once the negotiation is over, agents that participated in it complete their work and the process ends. We are interested in a more realistic scenario when a number of items of a given product are placed for sale one after another, e.g. 90 Canon EOS cameras are to be sold by an e-store.