Barter trade operations in the EU intracommunity area

Optimizing ad hoc trade in a commercial barter trade exchange

In this paper, we describe the operation of barter trade exchanges by identifying key techniques used by trade brokers to stimulate trade and satisfy member needs, and present algorithms to automate some of these techniques. In particular, we develop algorithms that emulate the practice of trade brokers by matching buyers and sellers in such a way that trade volume is maximized while the balanc...

EU Enlargement: The New Member States and Agricultural Trade Potentials

EU External Trade Policy

The external trade policy of the EU impinges on nearly one fifth of world trade. Hence, an understanding of the principles and practice of the Union's trade policy, the Common Commercial Policy (CCP), is of vital importance to any student of the global trade environment. Ongoing research on the CCP has addressed both broad themes and detailed aspects of the Union's trade policy provides insight...

Barter trade improves message delivery in opportunistic networks

In opportunistic networks, selfish nodes can exploit the services provided by other nodes by downloading messages that interest them, but refusing to store and distribute messages for the benefit of other nodes. We propose a mechanism to discourage selfish behavior based on the principles of barter. We develop a game-theoretic model in which we show that the proposed approach indeed stimulates ...

BARTER: A Backbone Architecture for Trade of Electronic Content

barter is a scalable, highly-available and efficient electronic commerce system that facilitates digital content trade over an open network. barter is designed to operate over a large-scale, global and heterogeneous communication network infrastructure. The barter protocols address two vital requirements from an electronic commerce system, neglected from existing systems: scalability and transa...