E-Commerce Agents: Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand

ISBN-13: 9783540419341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 350 str.

Jimingx Liu;Yiming Ye

Opis

The 20 chapters in this book, by leading researchers and professionals, present the state of the art in agent-mediated e-commerce. Researchers, professionals, and advanced students interested in e-commerce or agent technology should find this book a useful source of information and reference.

Spis treści

to E-Commerce Agents: Marketplace Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand.- to E-Commerce Agents: Marketplace Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand.- Marketplace Solutions.- A Generalized Platform for the Specification, Valuation, and Brokering of Heterogeneous Resources in Electronic Markets.- Economics of Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Marketplace.- An Electronic Marketplace Architecture Based on Technology of Intelligent Agents and Knowledge.- Modelling Broker Agents in Electronic Commerce of Multimedia Products and Services.- A Brokering Protocol for Electronic Trading.- Price Formation in Double Auctions.- Negotiating Agents in Manufacturing Decision Making Processes.- Evaluating Resource Bundle Derivatives for Multi-agent Negotiation of Resource Allocation.- Security Issues.- Conversational Speech Biometrics.- Secure Communication for Secure Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Applications.- MA/LMA Architecture for Dealing with Malicious Agents in Agent-Mediated Electronic Markets.- Secure Mobile Agent Digital Signatures with Proxy Certificates.- Agent-Mediated Secure Electronic Transaction for Online Interdependent Purchases.- An Agent-Based Micropayment System for E-Commerce.- Security Issues in M—Commerce: A Usage—Based Taxonomy.- Supply and Demand.- Towards Distributed Workflow Enactment with Itineraries and Mobile Agent Management.- Enterprise Federation and Its Multi-agent Modelization.- User-Centered Agents for Structured Information Location.- Using a Speech Technology Agent as an Interface for E-Commerce.

O autorze

Dr. Jiming Liu is the Head of Computer Science Department at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). He leads the AAMAS/AOC Research Group (i.e., Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems / Autonomy-Oriented Computing) at HKBU. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Physics from East China Normal University in Shanghai, an M.A. degree in Educational Technology from Concordia University in Montreal, and an M.Eng. and a Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal. In Feb.-July 1999, Dr. Liu was an invited Visiting Scholar in Computer Science Department, Stanford University, where he was associated with the AI & Robotics Laboratory and taught advanced graduate classes on topics related to Robot Learning, Neural Robots, and Evolutionary Robotics. He is Guest Professor at University of Science and Technology of China, East China Normal University (Software Engineering Institute), and Beijing University of Technology, as well as Adjunct Fellow at E-Business Technology Institute (ETI - a joint partnership institute between IBM and University of Hong Kong). Dr. Liu is the co-founder of Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), an international organization dedicated to promoting world-wide scientific research and industrial development in the era of Web and agent Intelligence. He has founded andserved, or is serving, as Program, Conference, Workshop, and General Chairs for several international conferences and workshops, including The IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) series and The IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) series, and is presently serving as the Senior Program Committee Member, Program Committee Member, and Steering/Planning Committee Member for many major international conferences.