Ž . The purpose of this paper is to study how Intelligent Agents IAs can be used to facilitate electronic trading. An IA is a software program designed for performing a specific task based on its own knowledge and the message it received. Given the increased complexity of Internet services, many IAs are useful to make electronic markets more effective. In the paper, activities and structures of...

the health industry’s supply chain is full of uncertainty and unpredictability. thus, building an intelligent system to effectively capture the requirements of customers and help manage the supply chain is very important. despite artificial intelligence widespread acceptance as a decision-aid tool, ai has seen limited application in supply chain management. to fully exploit the potential benefi...

Automated trading systems in the global financial markets are increasingly being deployed to do jobs previously done by skilled human traders: very often a human trader in the markets simply cannot tell whether the counter-party to a trade is another human, or a machine. Clearly, automated trading systems can easily be considered as “intelligent” software agents. In this paper we report on expe...

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This paper describes a new class of name and resource management facility  a trading service  which allows users of a heterogeneous large distributed system to share resources and services (resources) which are not available in their local systems. A distributed implementation of a trading service which provides name and location transparency to users is presented. This trading service is bas...

There is a growing need for some kind of personal driving assistant which is likely to become more acute as the free, independent , and very mobile baby boomers continue to age. Up to 86.5% of the US workforce commutes to work every day through personally owned automobile, often driving alone a car, a van, or a truck, at times in a commute as long as two hours. Urban planning and life style are...