The UniCats Project
trader research
The success of the internet has made some dramatic changes in the way of supplying scientists and students with scientific literature. It has started to change into an information market, where the value of a piece of information is determined by the law of supply and demand. Libraries, publishing houses, technical report servers, document delivery services and the bookstore around the corner offer their services in the WWW. The customer in this market is unable to find providers delivering the desired piece of indormation under his/her conditions for a fair price. The UniCats trader offers a solution for this problem in the open, distributed and heterogeneous environment of the information market.
Main focus of the work:
- Intelligent Traders
- learning by experience
- Cooperative Traders
- cooperation of traders joind in a trader federation
- administration of trader federations
- generic traders
- Competive Traders
- analysis of information markets
- charging models
- enforcing honesty of traders
- the trader as the main organizer within the market
- Versatile Traders
- platform independence
- cooperation of traders with different internal structure
- robustness of traders
