Bidding Strategies in Agent-Based Continuous Double Auctions

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Agent-Based Auctions in Electronic Commerce.- 1.2 Research Aims.- 1.3 Research Contributions.- 1.4 Book Structure.- 2 Agent-Based CDAs and Bidding Strategies.- 2.1 Agent-Based Continuous Double Auctions.- 2.2 Continuous Double Auction Mechanisms.- 2.3 Bidding Strategies for Agents in CDAs.- 2.4 Evaluation Criteria of Bidding Strategies.- 2.5 Approaches for Analyzing Bidding Strategies.- 3 The Adaptive Attitude Bidding Strategy.- 3.1 Eagerness.- 3.2 Bidding Strategies Based on Eagerness.- 3.3 Experimental Analysis.- 3.4 Summary.- 4 Soft Asks and Soft Bids.- 4.1 Motivation.- 4.2 Definitions.- 4.3 Experimental Results and Analysis.- 4.4 Observations.- 4.5 Agents with Adaptive Soft Asks or Bids.- 4.6 Experimental Evaluation.- 4.7 Summary.- 5 Adaptive Judgement of Price Acceptability.- 5.1 Motivation.- 5.2 Definitions.- 5.3 Experimental Results and Analysis.- 5.4 Agents with Adaptive Judgement of Price Acceptability.- 5.5 Experimental Evaluation.- 5.6 Summary.- 6 Adaptive Time Strategies.- 6.1 Preliminaries.- 6.2 Time Strategies.- 6.3 Illusory Seller's or Buyer's Market in CDAs with a Fixed Deadline.- 6.4 Circumstance-Dependent Softness.- 6.5 Effect of Different Submission Time.- 6.6 Adaptive Mechanisms for Sellers and Buyers to Utilize Time Strategies.- 6.7 Experimental Evaluation of Adaptive Mechanisms.- 6.8 Summary.- 7 Discussion of the Results.- 7.1 The Characteristics of Agent Oriented CDAs.- 7.2 Scenarios in Which Results Can Be Applied.- 8 Conclusions and Future Work.- 8.1 Conclusions.- 8.2 Possible Future Research Directions.- Bibliography.- Index.