The advent of e-commerce has created a trend that brought thousands of catalogs online. Most of these websites are “taxonomy-directed”. A Web site is said to be ``taxonomydire...
Providing an integrated access to multiple heterogeneous sources is a challenging issue in global information systems for cooperation and interoperability. In the past, companies h...
This paper presents a framework for personal agents that respect the privacy of the individual. We present some motivations and outline a framework for the use of personal agents a...
Ian Dickinson, Dave Reynolds, Dave Banks, Steve Ca...
Open systems are characterized by heterogeneous participants which can enter or leave the system at will. Typical examples are e-commerce applications or information agent systems...
Abstract. Combinatorial auctions are an important e-commerce application where bidders can bid on combinations of items. The problem of selecting the best bids that cover all items...