Links

Related projects at IBM

• IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce. The IAC was founded in January, 1998 to foster research and create new technologies in support of e-business and e-commerce. It sponsors various short-, medium-, and long-term research projects at IBM, including electronic checks and coupons, cyberauctions, and our information economies project. It also sponsors university research and various conferences. Its advisory board includes a number of distinguished academics and industry leaders.
  
  

• Business Rules for E-Commerce. The BREC project investigates rule-based business processes for e-commerce: both business-to-business (e.g., supply-chain) and business-to-consumer. A prototype of CommonRules, an extensible structured Java library for business rules and rule-based intelligent agents, is available on AlphaWorks.
  
  

• IBM Micro Payments. Allows human buyers or agents to purchase very low cost items over the Internet. An important enabling technology for agents, with all the necessary APIs to allow agents to charge for their services.
  
  

• Intelligent Agents. Collected information about intelligent agent research at IBM, including embeddable, reusable intelligent agent technology for networked applications.
  
  

• Massively Distributed Systems. Research on implications of a highly-connected world. Intelligent and mobile agents, agent security, emergent phenomena in large distributed computer networks, and anti-virus technology, including an immune system for cyberspace.
  
  

Related work

• University of Michigan Digital Library Project. A large-scale economy of agents that provide library services.
  

• Internet Ecologies area at HP Labs. Lots of interesting papers on dynamics of multi-agent systems, including internet ecologies, dynamics of cooperation in societies, computational societies and economies, etc.
  

• Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce Initiative at MIT. Led by Pattie Maes of the MIT Media Lab. Research on several important facets of agent-mediated electronic commerce, including buying, selling, negotiation, reputations, etc.
  

• The Center for Research in Electronic Commerce at U-Texas, Austin. E-commerce news, suggested books, and many good links.
  

• Intelligent Software Agents at CMU. Katia Sycara's group at Carnegie Mellon University. Of particular relevance is their work on "middle agents".
  

• Multiagent Systems Research Group at Washington University. Tuomas Sandholm's group is concerned with designing, analyzing and implementing systems of self-interested agents, using techniques from game theory and microeconomics augmented with various allowances for bounded rationality.
  

• UMBC AgentWeb. Large repository of information and resources about intelligent software agents at the University of Maryland at Baltimore.
  

• Economic Paradigms for Information Systems and Networks. Research group led by Yechiam Yemini of Columbia University.
  

• Hal Varian's Information Economy page, containing a wealth of information about Internet economics, e-commerce, electronic publishing, intellectual property, proposals for internet pricing, etc.
  

• Center for Computable Economics at the Economics Department at UCLA, containing lots of publications and working papers that pertain to multi-agent models of economic systems.
  

• Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE). Repository of information and resources about ACE, defined as "the computational study of economies modelled as evolving decentralized systems of autonomous interacting agents".
  

• ASA/MA 2000. Second International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications (ASA 2000) and Fourth International Symposium on Mobile Agents (MA 2000). Zurich, Switzerland, September 13-15, 2000.
  

• AAAI 2000/IAAI 2000. The Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Twelfth Innovative Applications of AI Conference. Austin, Texas, July 30- August 3, 2000.
  

• GAMES 2000. The First World Congress of The Game Theory Society. Bilbao, Spain, July 24-28, 2000.
  

• CIA 2000. Cooperative Information Agents workshop, co-located with ICMAS 2000. Boston, July 7-9, 2000.
  

• ICML-2000. Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning. Stanford University, California, June 29-July 2, 2000.
  

• Autonomous Agents 2000. Barcelona, Spain, June 5-7, 2000.
  

• Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games, and Nonlinear Dynamics. Vienna, May 24-26, 2000.
  

• Complex Behavior in Economics. Aix en Provence (Marseilles), France, May 4-6, 2000.
  

• CIEF 2000 . The First International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance. Atlantic City, New Jersey, February 27-March 3, 2000.
  

• Workshop on Agents in E-Commerce. Hong Kong, December 14-17, 1999.
  

• ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-99). Denver, November 3-5, 1999. Sponsored by the IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce.
  

• Autonomous Agents '99. Seattle, May 1-5, 1999.
  

• First International Conference on Information and Computation Economies (ICE '98).
  Charleston, South Carolina, October 25-28, 1998.
  

• Agents' World. Eight conferences and workshops relating to software agents and multi-agent systems were held in Paris, July 4-7, 1998.
  

• Artificial Life VI. Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, June 26-29, 1998.
  

Articles

• The Next Economy? Essay by DeLong and Froomkin on how the information economy may fail to meet some of the hidden assumptions underlying Adam Smith's Invisible Hand metaphor. Contains some reflections on the implications of shopbots.