%I Springer Verlag
%T An Ontology for Formalising Agreement Patterns in Auction Markets
%D 2010
%C Berlin, Alemania
%B Proceedings of Advances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA 2010
%A Jose Javier Duran Martin
%A Carlos Ángel Iglesias Fernández
%L upm8133
%X Knowledge and best practices on auction systems are cur- rently disseminated across the research literature, which limits its access, reuse, evaluation and feedback by practitioners. This article presents a systematic approach to collect this knowledge as design patterns, in order to provide assistance to software developers. An ontology has been de- _ned for formalising design patterns in auction systems, with the aim of improving its searchability by software developers. Finally, a case study illustrates how the proposed pattern ontology provides assistance in the development of a dynamic pricing model for an e-commerce service