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Managing Usage-Based Pricing in a Future Telecommunication Market
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dc.contributor.author | Altmann, Jorn | - |
dc.contributor.author | Varaiya, Pravin | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-08-10T23:50:03Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-08-10T23:50:03Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1999-04 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | PAAM’99, Fourth International Conference on Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents, London, April 1999 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10371/6858 | - |
dc.description.abstract | We describe one scenario of a future telecommunication market in which Internet Service Providers and
Internet users sell and buy services. ISPs specialize in niche markets offering certain telecommunication services under different usage-based pricing schemes. Users choose between those services on the basis of their current needs and QoS-price preferences. Since the service choice is a complicated task in a competitive environment we propose a software agent which purchases services on behalf of the user. The user agent is also supported by an agent for evaluating delivered services. At the ISP site, a flexible billing and accounting system exists. The design and implementation of this multi-agent system is investigated within the framework of the INternet Demand EXperiment project (INDEX), a testbed for analyzing the users demand and willingness to pay for different qualities of services. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | This project is funded by the National Science Foundation, Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems, SBC Communications,
and the California Micro Program. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | PAAM’99 | en |
dc.title | Managing Usage-Based Pricing in a Future Telecommunication Market | en |
dc.type | Conference Paper | en |
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