Information Theory Based Intelligent Agents

Electronic and mobile trading environments are saturated with information from the Internet and the World Wide Web. This paper proposes agents that can assimilate and use real-time information flows wisely to automate contract negotiation reliably. A new breed of information-based agents are founded on concepts from information theory, and are designed to operate with information flows of varying and questionable integrity. These agents are part of a larger project that aims to make informed automated trading in applications such as electronic or mobile procurement a reality