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Tutorial at 5th International Conference on Business
Information Systems BIS2002
Poznań, Poland, April 24-25, 2002
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Title: Introduction to Intelligent Software Agents in
Dynamic e-Commerce
Date: April 23, 2002
Time: 2 p.m.
Duration: 4 hours
Presenter: Ryszard Kowalczyk |
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Fee:
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Participant |
Student
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conference + tutorial |
90 EUR |
60 EUR |
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tutorial |
150 EUR |
100 EUR |
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Overview:
As e-commerce quickly evolves an increasing number of systems based on
software agent technologies are emerging to support and automate various
stages of the trading process (e.g. product finding, supplier finding,
auction bidding, product ordering, delivery monitoring etc). In particular
it has been recognized that software agents will play an important role in
so called dynamic e-commerce, which enables buying and selling goods and
services through flexible pricing mechanisms that change with supply and
demand, and enable mapping more complex negotiation models in business
transactions to e-commerce
This tutorial will provide an introduction to applications of
intelligent software agents in dynamic e-commerce according to the
following outline:
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Introduction to software agents and intelligent agents
including basic definitions and characteristics |
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Examples of agent systems in Internet and e-commerce |
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Overview of dynamic e-commerce including industry
needs, current state, trends in and some open problems |
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Selected market mechanisms and business negotiation
models in e-commerce |
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Examples of intelligent software agents for dynamic
e-commerce |
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Problem areas and open research issues |
The tutorial will conclude with some considerations of the requirements
for successful deployment of intelligent software agents in dynamic
e-commerce. |
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Presenter's Bio:
Ryszard Kowalczyk has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Technical
University of Silesia in Poland. He has several years of basic research
and industrial R&D experience in the area of Intelligent Systems
involving knowledge-based systems, fuzzy systems, evolutionary systems and
intelligent multi-agent systems for decision support and automation in
mission critical enterprise solutions. After a number of years with a
corporate R&D division of a major Australian corporation CRA, Dr.
Kowalczyk joined Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation (CSIRO) in 1996 where he headed the Applied Artificial
Intelligence R&D Group carrying out research on intelligent software
agents for e-commerce, e-business and e-service delivery. Currently he
also is affiliated with INTERSHOP Research where he leads research in
intelligent software agents for e-negotiation in dynamic e-commerce. |
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Dr Kowalczyk has a number of patents in the area of
intelligent agents and several publications including three edited books
and more than sixty research papers in books, journals and international
conference proceedings. He has been a technical book review editor in AI
for Kluwer Academic Publisher Group and a regular reviewer for
International Journal on Information Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy
Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, International
Journal on Knowledge and Information Systems, ACS Journal of Research and
Practice in Information Technology, and Journal of Applied Systems
Studies. |
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