A Trader for Services in a Scientific Literature Market
The success of the Internet has made some dramatic changes in the way scientists and students are supplied with scien tific literature. They can now operate in an information market, where the value o f a piece of information is determined by the law of supply and demand. Traders assist the customer in this market. This paper describes a basic approach to tr ading in the open, distributed, and heterogeneous environment of a market of scientific information.