01852nas|a2200253 a 450000500170000000800410001703500150005810000210007324500620009426000670015630000180022349000270024150001390026850200580040752007690046565000320123465000240126670000330129070000420132370000520136571000570141781000590147485600650153320260817161835.0060502s2005    th uu|m rtt   0|  a1eng d  a.b1198658x0 aNattiya Kanhabua10aAgent-based simulation of trade in barter trade exchanges  aPathum Thani, Thailand :bAsian Institute of Technology,c2005  a60 p. :bill.1 aThesis ;vno. CS-05-15  aA thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Advanced Technologies  aThesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2005  aIn this thesis, we presented a simulator for barter trade exchange. The simulator is implemented using a data-driven approach. This technique learns probabilistic models of company purchase behavior from transaction history data obtained from an operating commercial barter trade exchange. We experiment with a number of different temporal and non-temporal probabilistic models. Our simulator is built by making use of the learned company purchase probability. The simulated trade is quantitatively evaluated by measuring the agreement between simulated and actual values from different aspects (purchase amount, sales amount, the absolute trade balance and the over all trade volume). Results show a high degree of agreement between the simulated and actual trade 0aBarterxSimulation  methods 0aElectronic Commerce1 aHaddawy, Peter,eChairperson1 aGuha, Sumanta,eExamination Committee0 aVatcharaporn Esichaikul,eExamination Committee2 aHis Majesty the King of Thailand,eScholarship donor2 aAsian Institute of Technology.tThesis ;vno. CS-05-15  3Full-Textuhttp://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B09500