Michael Ströbel worked for several years as a software engineer and consultant in the German IT industry before joining IBM Research in Switzerland, where he developed his interest in support for negotiations in electronic markets. During his career in research, he has published several articles on this topic in major international conferences and journals and received a PhD from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.

Based on his experiences and contributions, the author discusses electronic negotiation technologies - key ingredients for the next generation of electronic markets - from a scientific as well as a practitioner's perspective. He reviews the state-of-the-art and then introduces novel support mechanisms and design elements, which are applied in a number of case studies. This book is geared towards technicians interested in E-Commerce application development but also offers extensive background reading for educational purposes.

Author divulges his multi-faceted experiences in dealing with electronic negotiation technologies Discusses the future of electronic markets, as well as, the application of current software and case studies Interdisciplinary context, including perspectives from information systems, game theory, economics and computer science Addresses scientific and industrial communities Valuable for researchers and practitioners who are interested in the state of the art of electronic negotiations

Inhalt
1 Introduction.- 1. Remarks.- 2. Motivation and relevance.- 3. Outline.- 2 Assessment.- 1. Research contributions.- 2. An evaluation of the state of the art.- 3. Summary.- 3 Foundations.- 1. Negotiations.- 2. Electronic negotiations.- 3. Formal model.- 4. Reference model.- 5. Taxonomy.- 6. Summary.- 4 Electronic Negotiation Support.- 1. Definition.- 2. Requirements.- 3. NSC external view - behaviour.- 4. NSC internal views.- 5. NSC candidates.- 6. Combining NSC operations.- 7. Summary.- 5 Electronic Negotiation Design.- 1. Approach.- 2. Analysis.- 3. Design.- 4. Implementation.- 5. Summary.- 6 Electronic Negotiation Architecture.- 1. Architecture model.- 2. SilkRoad.- 3. Summary.- 7 Application.- 1. Potential usage.- 2. Scenario cases.- 3. Summary.- 8 Evaluation, Exploration, Conclusion.- 1. Intended scope and assumptions.- 2. Solution approaches revisited.- 3. Future work.- 4. Summary.- 1. NSC Interface Definitions.- 3. Sample scenario case specification.- 4. JSP agent adapter class diagram.- 5. XML schemata examples.- 6. Acronyms.