The dynamics of the UMDL service market society

Edmund H. Durfee; Tracy Mullen; Sunju Park; José M. Vidal; Peter Weinstein

doi:10.1007/BFb0053675

The dynamics of the UMDL service market society

Edmund H. Durfee, Tracy Mullen, Sunju Park, José M. Vidal, Peter Weinstein

Department of Business Administration

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Abstract

One of our goals when building the University of Michigan Digital Library (UMDL) has been to prototype an architecture that can continually reconfigure itself as users, contents, and services come and go. We have worked toward this goal by developing a multi-agent infrastructure with agents that buy and sell services from each other using our commerce and communication protocols. We refer to the services and protocols offered by this infrastructure as the Service Market Society (SMS). Within the SMS, agents are able to find, work with, and even try to outsmart each other, as each agent attempts to accomplish the tasks for which it was created. When we open the door to decentralized decision-making among self-interested agents, there is a risk that the system will degenerate into chaos. In this paper, we describe the protocols, services, and agent abilities embedded in the SMS infrastructure that combat such chaos while permitting flexibility, extensibility, and scalability of the system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cooperative Information Agents II
Subtitle of host publication	Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet - 2nd International Workshop, CIA 1998, Proceedings
Editors	Matthias Klusch, Gerhard Weiß
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	55-78
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Print)	3540646760, 9783540646761
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053675
Publication status	Published - 1998
Event	2nd International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA 1998 - Paris, France Duration: 1998 Jul 4 → 1998 Jul 7

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	1435
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	2nd International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA 1998
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	98/7/4 → 98/7/7

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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998.

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Durfee, E. H., Mullen, T., Park, S., Vidal, J. M., & Weinstein, P. (1998). The dynamics of the UMDL service market society. In M. Klusch, & G. Weiß (Eds.), Cooperative Information Agents II: Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet - 2nd International Workshop, CIA 1998, Proceedings (pp. 55-78). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 1435). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053675

Durfee, Edmund H. ; Mullen, Tracy ; Park, Sunju et al. / The dynamics of the UMDL service market society. Cooperative Information Agents II: Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet - 2nd International Workshop, CIA 1998, Proceedings. editor / Matthias Klusch ; Gerhard Weiß. Springer Verlag, 1998. pp. 55-78 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Durfee, EH, Mullen, T, Park, S, Vidal, JM & Weinstein, P 1998, The dynamics of the UMDL service market society. in M Klusch & G Weiß (eds), Cooperative Information Agents II: Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet - 2nd International Workshop, CIA 1998, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 1435, Springer Verlag, pp. 55-78, 2nd International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA 1998, Paris, France, 98/7/4. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053675

The dynamics of the UMDL service market society. / Durfee, Edmund H.; Mullen, Tracy; Park, Sunju et al.
Cooperative Information Agents II: Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet - 2nd International Workshop, CIA 1998, Proceedings. ed. / Matthias Klusch; Gerhard Weiß. Springer Verlag, 1998. p. 55-78 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 1435).

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Durfee EH, Mullen T, Park S, Vidal JM, Weinstein P. The dynamics of the UMDL service market society. In Klusch M, Weiß G, editors, Cooperative Information Agents II: Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet - 2nd International Workshop, CIA 1998, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 1998. p. 55-78. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/BFb0053675

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