Welcome to eMediator!
eMediator is a free-to-use next generation electronic commerce server.
It provides several services that facilitate efficient commerce, both
in terms of process and outcome. It uses state-of-the-art
technologies developed by the Multiagent Systems Research Group at the
Computer Science Department of Washington University in St. Louis,
headed by assistant professor Tuomas Sandholm.
Services
- eAuctionHouse
- Free-to-use third party auction site
- Wide range of customizable auction types
- Allows you to buy and sell items as well as to set up markets
Allows bidding on combinations of items, and uses novel efficient algorithms for determining winners in this setting
- Allows bidding with price-quantity graphs
- Supports easy creation and safe on-site execution of mobile Java agents that can buy and sell goods on the server, and set up auctions
- eCommitter, Leveled commitment contract optimizer
- Improves the efficiency of contracts by allowing decommitting
- Optimizes the contract price and the decommitment penalties for all contract parties based on a game-theoretic model
- Determines exactly when each party should decommit
- eExchangeHouse, a safe exchange planner
- Helps avoid non-delivery in exchanges
- Game-theoretic method for guaranteeing that each party is motivated to carry through with the exchange instead of vanishing
- Algorithms for chunking the exchange into parts
- Algorithms for sequencing the chunks to achieve safe exchange
- Coalition formation support (coming soon)
- Electronic meeting place and discussion forum
- Efficient algorithms for coalition structure generation, and for dividing the coalition's payoffs
- eVoter (coming soon)
- Nonmanipulable third party voting protocol
- Game-theoretically guarantees that voters are motivated to vote truthfully
- Meta-auction (coming later)
- For finding out what is for sale on the Web
- Reputation databases and algorithms (coming later)
- Collaborative rating of goods (coming later)
DISCLAIMER: eMediator is a continuously evolving research prototype.
Neither the developers nor Washington University guarantee that it operates
as desired. Users participate at their own risk. eMediator is an information
and matching service: the contract parties carry out the exchanges themselves.
We do not do settlement or any sort of enforcement.