As the second generation of electronic commerce, the framework of agent based commerce is proposed. Since the communication messages and solution methods of agents are significant...
In this paper, we discuss the various issues in designing intelligent software systems to assist worldwide-web users in locating relevant information. We identi3 a number of key c...
Joseph K. W. Lee, David Wai-Lok Cheung, Ben Kao, J...
Business System Engineers, responding to changes in the market place, are faced with the challenge of building increasingly complex and varied systems. Formal approaches and model...
Embodiment and subjectivity are important research issues for collaborative virtual environments. We claim that the direction and distance of an embodiment are the most important ...
A research project with distributed electronic teams was conducted to examine how virtual temporary teams quickly develop and maintain trust relationships with people that they ha...
One model of multithreading gaining popularity on multiprocessor systems is the message-driven model of computation. The message-driven model is a reactive model in which an arriv...
The profitability of banks world-wide has decreased from the early 1980s to the 1990s. This has been attributed to several factors: the decline of traditional banking activities (...
Christopher P. Holland, A. Geoffrey Lockett, Ian D...