Magma an agent based virtual market for electronic commerce
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Applied Artificial Intelligence
- Vol. 11 (6) , 501-523
- https://doi.org/10.1080/088395197118046
Abstract
We propose an architecture for an agent-based virtual market that includes all elements required for simulating a real market. These elements include a communication infrastructure, mechanisms for storage and transfer of goods, banking and monetary transactions, and economic mechanisms for direct or brokered producer-consumer transactions. We report findings that resulted from implementing and conducting experiments with a free-market agent architecture (MAGMA). MAGMA is an extensible architecture that provides all services essential to agent-based commercial activities. These services are available through an open-standard messaging API, which allows using a heterogeneous set of agents, independently of the platform and language.Keywords
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