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An exception-handling architecture for open electronic marketplaces of contract net software agents

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Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce table of contents

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Pages: 225 - 232

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-58113-272-7

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Chrysanthos Dellarocas	Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Mark Klein	Center for Coordination Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar	Center for Coordination Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

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SIGEcom: ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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