@Article{fontoura05a,
  author =	 {Marcus Fontoura and Mihail Ionescu and Naftaly
                  Minsky},
  title =	 {Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Auctions},
  journal =	 {Electronic Commerce Research},
  year =	 2005,
  volume =	 5,
  number =	 1,
  pages =	 {7--24},
  abstract =	 {This paper proposes a flexible architecture for the
                  creation of Internet auctions. It allows the custom
                  definition of the auction parameters, and provides a
                  decentralized control of the auction
                  process. Auction policies are defined as laws in the
                  Law Governed Interaction (LGI) paradigm. Each of
                  these laws specifies not only the auction algorithm
                  itself (e.g., open-cry, Dutch, etc.) but also how to
                  handle the other parameters usually involved in the
                  online auctions, such as certification, auditioning,
                  and treatment of complaints. LGI is used to enforce
                  the rules established in the auction policy within
                  the agents involved in the process. After the agents
                  find out about the actions, they interact in a
                  peer-to-peer communication protocol, reducing the
                  role of the centralized auction room to an
                  advertising registry, and taking profit of the
                  distributed nature of the Internet to conduct the
                  auction. The paper presents an example of an auction
                  law, illustrating the use of the proposed
                  architecture.},
  keywords =     {multiagent auctions p2p},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/fontoura05a.pdf},
  googleid = 	 {F2K8UUwDln0J:scholar.google.com/},
  cluster = 	 {9049424127571288599}
}