Agents are rapidly emerging as a new paradigm for developing software applications. They are being used in an increasing variety of applications, ranging from relatively small systems such as assistants to large, open, mission-critical systems like electronic marketplaces. One of the most promising areas of applications for agent technology is e-business. In this chapter, we describe a group of...

Mass production of consumer products is both wasteful and limit the consumers’ power to influence the design of what they are buying. When shopping for a product, the customer must choose between a range of specific products with limited variations. What if the customer could make all the design choices, creating and buying the product according to his or her own needs? A 3D product generator h...

* This work draws extensively on the text of the authors’ research memorandum ‘Toward Institutional Infrastructures for e-Science: the Scope of the Challenge’, released in May 2004 as Oxford Internet Institute Research Report No 2 (hereafter ‘David and Spence’). That publication was derived from the OII’s (September 15, 2003) Final Report on the ‘The Institutional Infrastructure of e-Science: T...

1 Andrew Nafalski, University of South Australia, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Mawson Lakes 5095, South Australia, [email protected] 2 Andy Koronios, University of South Australia, School of Computer and Information Science, address as above, [email protected] Abstract This paper reports on the development of professional degrees in the field of electronic comm...

Enterprises make e-services available via the Internet to drive new revenue streams or create new efficiencies. Composite eservices, which consist of various e-services provided by different e-service providers, are more valuable for customers. This work presents a novel platform capable of supporting e-service metadata, and modeling and recommending composite eservices. Composite e-services ar...