Title
An exception-handling architecture for open electronic marketplaces of contract net software agents
Abstract
Software agent marketplaces require the development of new architectures, which are capable of coping with unreliable computational and network infrastructures, limited trust among independently developed agents and the possibility of systemic failures. In analogy with human societies, agent marketplaces will benefit from the introduction of appropriate electronic exception handling institutions, whose role will be to help guarantee efficiency and fairness in the face of these challenges. This paper presents a research methodology for designing and evaluating such electronic institutions. It also describes how the methodology has been applied in order to design and evaluate an exception handling architecture for robust software agent marketplaces based on the contract net protocol.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1145/352871.352896
EC
Keywords
Field
DocType
exception handling,software agent,electronic markets,failure management,open electronic marketplace,software agents,electronic institutions,exception-handling architecture,contract net,contract net protocol,research methodology
Computer science,Commerce,Risk analysis (engineering),Failure management,Artificial intelligence,Analogy,Contract management,Architecture,Exception handling,Software agent,Research methodology,Machine learning,Contract Net Protocol
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-272-7
24
2.12
References 
Authors
16
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chrysanthos Dellarocas12458341.20
Mark M. Klein21550187.52
Juan A. Rodríguez-aguilar31772137.55