Agents That Buy and Sell Pattie Maes
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COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM March 1999/Vol. 42, No. 3 81 However, the potential of the Internet for transforming commerce is largely unrealized. Electronic purchases are still largely nonautomated. While information about products and vendors is more easily accessible, and orders and payments are dealt with electronically, humans are still in the loop in all stages of the buying process, adding to transaction costs. A human buyer is still responsible for collecting and interpreting information on merchants and products, making decisions about merchants and products, and ultimately entering purchase and payment information. Software agent technologies can be used to automate several of the most time-consuming stages of the buying process. Unlike socalled traditional software, software agents are personalized, continuously running, and semiautonomous [1]. These qualities help optimize the whole buying experience, revolutionizing commerce as we know it [2]. For example, a company that needs to opular software agents were first used several years
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