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Economic models are found efficient in managing heterogeneous computer resources such as storage, CPU and memory for grid computing. Commodity market, double auction and contract-net-protocol economic models have been widely discussed in the literature. These models are suitable for sharing distributed computer resources that belong to different owners. Agent technology can be used to manage these...
An auction mechanism consists of an allocation rule and a payment rule. There have been several studies on characterizing strategy-proof allocation rules; if the allocation rule satisfies a condition called weak-monotonicity, an appropriate payment rule is guaranteed to exist. One desirable property that an auction mechanism should satisfy is revenue monotonicity; a seller's revenue is guaranteed...
Web log analysis can be helpful in gaining information about the usability of the web site, web performance, for marketing purposes, or for development of business intelligence tools in e-commerce systems. User segmentation is one of the problems solved in marketing and e-commerce sphere. Various software was developed to support web analysis. However, most of them provide only information through...
The main topic of this paper is description of a proposal of a web shop with user preference searching - PrefShop. A typical web shop was implemented, but new capabilities were added to help the user with finding desired object. Besides preference search, visual hints that clarify the object relevance or the lack of relevance are proposed.
In the area of financial decision making it is more and more acknowledged that psychological states and characteristics play an important role, for example feeling insecure in relation to financial risks, and being greedy in relation to opportunities to obtain serious gains. This paper presents an agent model of human decision making behaviour in economic situations, incorporating a human's greed...
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