Designing and Implementing Electronic Auctions in a Multiagent System Environment.pdf

WOA 2005 157 Designing and Implementing Electronic Auctions in a Multiagent System Environment † ‡ † Davide Roggero , Fioravante Patrone , Viviana Mascardi † ` DISI, Universita di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146, Genova, Italy davide@unige.it,mascardi@disi.unige.it, ‡ ` DIPTEM, Universita di Genova, P.le Kennedy - Pad D, 16129, Genova, Italy patrone@diptem.unige.it Abstract— Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce is gaining a following equation: wide consensus both from the academia and from the industry, since it provides the right abstractions, models and tools to e-Commerce = organization + mechanism + trust face the challenges that electronic commerce raises. According to C.Sierra, e-commerce can be described as organization + In this paper we deal with the second element of the sum: mechanism + trust, where mechanism is concerned with the rules mechanism. Mechanism design is concerned with establishing that govern the interaction among agents in such a way that the rules that govern the interaction among agents in such a certain properties can be guaranteed.