Alcino Cunha, Orlando Belo and Alexandre Santos
Universidade do Minho
Departamento de Informática
P-4700-320 Braga, Portugal
Tel.: +351 253 604475
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E-mail: {alcino,obelo,alex} (at) di.uminho.pt
This paper presents and discusses an economic decision model for electronic mail distribution systems. In order to apply economic decision approaches to an user mail agent community, made of intelligent agents with the aptness to reach lower mail transfer costs, we have imported concepts, adopted parts of a mail system model, designed new components and proposed an Electronic Mail Distribution System based on Multi-Agent Systems technology.