Today’s corporate managers face challenges in information technology (IT) adoption with great stakes. The waiting period for an IT investment to be realized, if any, could be long; thus word-of-mouth information propagation may not help them to make wise decisions. Though information used by early adopters to make their decisions may not be available to the public, late adopters can often obser...

With China’s imminent entry into the World Trade Organization, the deregulation of the Japanese insurance market, and the liberalization of Indian insurance regulations, Asia is poised to become a major insurance magnet over the next decade. Foreign companies able to capitalize on the recent increased openness of the Asian markets stand to reap substantial profits. However, companies entering t...

Proactive information sharing is a challenging issue faced by intelligence agencies in effectively making critical decisions under time pressure in areas related to homeland security. Motivated by psychological studies on human teams, a team-oriented agent architecture, Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork (CAST), was implemented to allow agents in a team to anticipate the information n...