METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION WITH INTELLIGENT AGENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an intelligent agent and a method of negotiating herewith, which enhance the productivity, security, efficiency and responsiveness of the agent in negotiations with other parties. SOLUTION: The agent and the method incorporate a number of features. One feature incorporates randomization of one or more aspects of an agents behavior to disguise its negotiation strategy from other negotiating parties and thereby prevent such parties from gaining a negotiating advantage at the expense of the agent. Another feature incorporates limiting unproductive negotiations by constraining one or more aspects of the agent's behavior based upon the behavior of a negotiation party and/or the duration of the transaction and thereby making it more likely that unproductive negotiations will be terminated. An additional feature incorporates dynamic value determination to determine the desired value of a desired transaction by weighting and normalizing estimated values retrieved from a plurality of information sources. Moreover, a further feature incorporates dynamic value determination which weights and normalizes values of related transactions based upon the proximity of the related and desired transactions.