Utilizing Dutch Auction in an Agent-based Model E-commerce System

Recently, we have presented an initial implementation of a model agent-based e-commerce system, which utilized a simple price negotiation mechanism–English Auction. In this note we discuss how a Dutch Auction involving multiple units of a product can be included in our system. We present UML diagrams of agents involved in price negotiations and briefly discuss rule-based mechanism exemplifying Dutch Auction.

Authors:

• Costin Badica
• Maria Ganzha
• Maciej Gawinecki
• Pawel Kobzdej
• Marcin Paprzycki

Keywords:

• e-commerce
• rule-based price negotiation mechanism
• Dutch Auction
• agent system.

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