| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M07076/02 |
| Title: |
PRACTICAL NEGOTIATION OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE |
| Principal Investigator: |
Wooldridge, Professor M |
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| Department: |
Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Liverpool |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
17 July 2000 |
Ends: |
16 August 2002 |
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121,792
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Financial Services |
| Information Technologies |
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The long-term goal of our work is to develop algorithms and techniques that will enable efficient second-generation electronic commerce systems to be implemented. To achieve this long-term goal, we must design practical algorithms and protocols for automated negotiation. Such a long-term goal is beyond the scope of the three-year time-scale of the proposed project. Instead, we will carry out the programme of work described below, which represents a sound and feasible first step towards our ultimate goal.In summary, our principle aims for this three-year research programme are: To develop basic negotiation algorithms for electronic commerce scenarios, by using game-theoretic techniques, and in particular techniques from mechanism design; To compare and evaluate these algorithms with respect to their theoretical and demonstrated efficiency and stability, and investigate tractable heuristic approximation to these algorithms; To develop a prototype implementation of the best of these algorithms, and evaluate the effectiveness of this demonstrator.
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http://www.liv.ac.uk |