Agent systems in electronic business

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Li, Eldon Yu-zen, 1952-, Yuan, Soe-Tsyr.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Series: Advances in electronic business series.
• Subjects: Electronic commerce > Technological innovations.; Intelligent agents (Computer software); Agent technologies in e-business infrastructure; Agent technologies in e-commerce; Agent-based e-business systems design; Agent-based technology applications; Auction design for agent-based marketplaces; Comparison-shopping agents; Cross-fertilized techniques in business automation; Intelligent shopping support; Inter-organizational business process; Malicious agents in open multi-agent systems; Mobile negotiation support mechanism; Semantic location modeling for mobile enterprise; Service composition approach; Supply and demand in business transaction formation
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"This book delivers definitive research on the use of agent technologies to advance the practice of electronic business in today's organizations, targeting the needs of enterprises in open and dynamic business opportunities to incorporate skilled use of multiple independent information sys...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. Patterns for designing agent-based e-business systems / Michael Weiss
• 2. The evolution of comparision-shopping agents / Yun Wan
• 3. A study of intelligent shopping support : a case study of outbound group package-tour products in Taiwan / Wen-Shan Lin
• 4. Agent-based matching of demands and supplies in business transactions formation / Raymund J. Lin and Seng-Cho T. Chou
• 5. Evolutionary auction design for agent-based marketplaces / Zengchang Qin
• 6. An inter-organizational business process study from agents interaction perspective / Joseph Barjis and Samuel Chong
• 7. Applications of agent-based technology as coordination and cooperation in the supply chain based e-business / Golenur Begum Huq and Robyn Lawson
• 8. An agent-based framework for emergent process management / John Debenham
• 9. Beyond intelligent agents : e-sensors for supporting supply chain collaboration and preventing the bullwhip effect / Walter Rodriguez, Janusz Zalewski, and Elias Kirche
• 10. An automated negotiation mechanism for agent based on international joint ventures / Yee Ming Cheng and Pei-Ni Huang
• 11. An agent-mediated middleware service framework for e-logistics / Zongwei Luo, Minhong Wang, William K. Cheung, Jiming Liu, F. Tong, and C.J. Tan
• 12. A multi-agent system approach to mobile negotiation support mechanism by integrating case-based reasoning and fuzzy cognitive map / Kun Chang Lee and Namho Lee
• 13. A study of malicious agents in open multi-agent systems : the economic perspective and simulation / Pinata Winoto and Tiffany Y. Tang
• 14. Features for killer apps from a semantic Web perspective / Kieron O'Hara, Harith Alani, Yannis Kalfoglou, and Nigel Shadbolt
• 15. Semantic location modeling for mobile enterprises / Soe-Tsyr Yuan and Pei-Hung Hsieh
• 16. Service composition approaches for ubiquitous and pervasive computing : a survey / Mohamed Bakhouya and Jaafar Gaber.