Combinatorial Trading In Electronic Commerce Based On Multi-Agent Coalition Formation

Electronic Commerce has attracted much attention for it offers significant opportunities to make businesses faster, cheaper, and more agile. However these days, it is facing severe challenge because it cannot adapt itself to users'expanding demand for personality and automation of businesses. This dissertation investigates the problem of combinatorial trading and applies multi-agent coalition formation methodology for it. Several key techniques of coalition formation in combinatorial markets are deeply studied.At first, correlative research background is introduced. And then development of Electronic Commerce and multi-agent coalition formation technology is given. Combinatorial trading in Electronic Commerce based on multi-agent coalition formation is studied. And finally a related case is given.