Final Program

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WAEC Final Program

8:05 - 8:30 Workshop Registration

8:30 - 8:35 Opening Remarks

8:35 - 8:50 The ETI Best Paper Award by Dr. C. J. Tan

8:50 - 9:30 Invited Talk by Dr. Wlodek Zadrozny [Room A / WLB204]

9:30 - 9:35 Short Break

9:35 - 11:15 Session 1 (Single-track presentation; 20 min each) [Room A / WLB204]

Electronic Supply Chain

Decision Support for Managing an Electronic Supply Chain

Pinar Keskinocak, Richard Goodwin, Frederick Wu, Rama Akkiraju and Sesh Murthy

Security Issues for Agents and Mobile Agents

Secure Data Collection With Updates

Sergio Loureiro, Refik Molva and Alain Pannetrat

Proxy Certificates: A Mechanism to Delegate Digital Signature Power to Mobile Agents

Artur Romao and Miguel Mira da Silva

J-Seal2 - A Secure High-Performance Mobile Agent System

Walter Binder

Interface and Communication Agents

An Internet-Communicative Agent

Matjaz Gams

11:15 - 11:25 Coffee Break

11:25 - 12:40 Session 2 (Parallel-track presentation; 15 min each) [Room A / WLB204]

Security Issues for Agents and Mobile Agents

Enabling a Lightweight Software Agent Framework for Secure Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Applications

Joris Classens, Bart Preneel and Joos Vandewalle

A Micropayment System Based on Mobile Agents

T. O. Lee, Y. L. Yip, C. M. Tsang and K. W. Ng

Malicious Agent in Multiple Agent-Mediated Virtual Market

Ding Peng, Sheng Haun Ye, MaoWei Liang, Liming Lu and Hao Qing

Secure Electronic Transaction Based on Software Agent

X. Yi, S. C. Siew, Y. Miao and Y. Liu

Agents in Electronic Supply Chain

Inineraries and Mobile Agent Management for Distributed Workflow Enactment

Seng Wai Loke and Arkady Zaslavsky

11:25 - 12:10 Session 3 (Parallel-track presentation; 15 min each) [Room B / NAB205]

System and Architecture Issues

Managing Combination Products with Adlet in E-Commerce

Yasuro Kawata, Ping-Wen Chen, Hossam I. Garib and Shi-Kuo Chang

Broker, Intermediate, and Negotiation Agents

Evolution of Broker Agents in Electronic Commerce of Multimedia Products and Services

Jaime Delgado and Isabel Gallego

Negotiating Agents in Decision Making Processes

P. W. Lei, M. I. Heywood and C. R. Chatwin

12:40 - 13:50 Lunch

Afternoon

14:00 - 14:40 Invited Talk by Dr. Anthony Hall [Room A / WLB204]

14:40 - 14:45 Short Break

14:45 - 16:45 Session 4 (Single-track presentation; 20 min each) [Room A / WLB204]

Agent Based Market Simulation

Economics of Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Marketplace

G. Zacharia, A. Moukas, P. Boufounos and P. Maes

Agent Based Social Simulation in Markets

Koen Bertels and Magnus Boman

Broker, Intermediate, and Negotiation Agents

An Electronic Marketplace Architecture Based on Technology of Intelligent Agents and Knowledge

Georgia P. Barbosa and Fabio Q. B. Silva

Advertising Agents

Internet Advertising, Game Theory, and Consumer Welfare

Kevin Lawler and Marcus Ling

A Unified Statistical Framework for Recommender Systems

K. W. Cheung and K. C. Tsui

Electronic Shopping through an Interactive Advertising and Browsing Banner

Zon-yin Shae, Xiping Wang and Juerg von Kaenel

16:45 - 16: 55 Coffee Break

16:55 - 18:10 Session 5 (Parallel-track presentation; 15 min each) [Room A / WLB204]

Broker, Intermediate, and Negotiation Agents

Agent Negotiation over Compound Network Resources

Lars Rasmusson

A Brokering Protocol for Electronic Trading

Kwang Mong Sim and Raymond Chan

An Actor-Based Framework for Negotiating Mobile Agents

M. T. Tu, C. Seebode, F. Griffel and W. Lamersdorf

Reusing Previous Negotiation Experiences in Multi-Agent Negotiation

Dongmei Zhang, Wai Yat Wong and Ryszard Kowalczyk

Legal Aspects

The Legal Implications of Intelligent Agent in Electronic Commerce

Ian R. Kerr

16:55 - 18:10 Session 6 (Parallel-track presentation; 15 min each) [Room B / NAB205]

Interface and Communication Agents

Using a Speech Technology Agent as an Interface for E-commerce

Marie Devlin and Terri Scott

Web Integration of Legacy Systems Using Host Access Beans for Java

Chenhong Xia

Agent Based Market Simulation

Norms for Artificial Agent Action in Markets

Magnus Boman, Lisa Brouwers, Karin Hansson, Carl-Gustaf Jansson, Johan Kummeneje and Harko Verhagen

System, Architecture, and other Related Issues

Trainable Agent Communities: Uniform, Simple, and Stable Interfaces to Exploding Web Sources

L. Chen and Y. Yuan

Building Server Agents Using the Java Servlet Technology

Fangju Wang and Ching Zhang


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