AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS - A SURVEY OF THE STATE-OF-THE-ART

This paper provides a definition of automated negotiation within elect ronic commerce. It outlines two barriers to automated negotiation in o pen marketspaces, the ontology issue and the strategy problem. Stare o f the art overviews are given of automated negotiation, specifically N egotiation Support Systems, intelligent agents, the auction mechanism, and online marketspaces. Both academic research and currently functio nal systems are covered, and several World Wide Web addresses are give n for readers who wish to investigate further on their own.