Matchmaking to Support Intelligent Agents for Portfolio Management

Abstract

A-Match is a matchmaking system that allows agents to enter and exit the system dynamically. It employs a Matchmaker to support agents in the system in their exchange of services. A-Match lets human users interact with the Matchmaker. Through the A-Match users find agents that can provide needed services or advertise new agents. The functionality of the A-Match is displayed in the context of the Warren System, a system that supports the user to manage its own stock portfolio. Research Overview The Internet is both a powerful resource and a powerful challenge for AI applications. While it provides a great deal of information, it is also a dynamic source of information in which sites might disappear while new and better sites are added. The A-Match System and the Warren System (Sycara, Decker, & Zeng 1999) demonstrate how Multi Agent Systems (MAS) naturally deals with the dynamism of the Internet. A-Match is a web based matchmaking service that records which agents are availabl...