A Componentized Architecture for Dynamic Electronic Markets

The emergence and growing popularity of Internet-based electronic market-places, in their various forms, has raised the challenge to explore genericity in market design. In this paper we present a domain-specic software architecture that delineates the abstract components of a generic market and species control and data- ow constraints between them, and a framework that allows convenient pluggability of components that implement specic market policies. The framework was realized in the GEM system. GEM provides infrastructure services that allow market designers to focus solely on market-issues. In addition, it allows dynamic (re)conguration of components. This functionality can be used to change market-policies as the environment or market trends change, adding another level of exibility to market designers and administrators. 1 Introduction and Motivation Inspired by the growth of the Internet, electronic commerce (EC) has grown rapidly over the last few years and has become a ..