Shopping on the Internet has become a convenient way of purchasing commodities of choice. A key contribution of agent technology will be to develop personal agents that can assist...
Electronic B2B marketplaces bring together many online suppliers and buyers, each of which can potentially use his own format to represent the products in his product catalog. The ...
Abstract. In many cases, complex system behaviors are naturally modeled as nonlinear differential equations. However, these equations are often hard to analyze because of "sti...
Currently, Web services are available on Internet in a simple and easy way to use. However, a single service can not respond to a predetermined request by user. Thus, it is necessa...
: Mass customization has become one of the key strategies for a service provider to differentiate itself from its competitors in a highly segmented global service market. This pape...
Jian Cao, Jie Wang, Kincho H. Law, Shen-sheng Zhan...