Domain Models of “The Market”

By an e-Transaction System we shall understand a computer & communications--based system which support, and, in parts automates exchanges of contractual, action-invoking local state-changing messages (ie., transactions) between a wide variety of actors (traders). By “The Market” we shall first understand a structure of consumers, retailers, wholesalers and producers — ie., the traders. Later we shall extend our notion of “The Market”.