TY - JOUR AU - Vulkan, Nir PY - 2002/09/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Strategic Design of Mobile Agents JF - AI Magazine JA - AIMag VL - 23 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.1609/aimag.v23i3.1660 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1660 SP - 101 AB - Much of the economic value of electronic commerce comes from the automation of interactions between businesses and individuals. Game theory is a useful set of tools that can be used by designers of electronic-commerce applications in analyzing and engineering of automated agents and communication protocols. The central theoretical concept used in game theory is the Nash equilibrium. In this article, I show how the outcomes supported by a Nash equilibrium can positively be enlarged using automated negotiations. ER -