Title of Dissertation: THE VALUE OF IT-ENABLED RETAILER LEARNING: CAN PERSONALIZED PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS (PPRS) IMPROVE CUSTOMER STORE LOYALTY IN ELECTRONIC MARKETS? Tongxiao Zhang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor Ritu Agarwal and Professor Hank Lucas Department of Decision and Information Technologies Personalization is a strategy that has been widely adopted b...

Simulations often need access to physically distributed data resources such as datasets, sensors, or even other simulations. The Agent-Based Environment for Linking Simulations (ABELS) is a framework that allows distributed simulations and data resources to dynamically communicate with each other in real time to produce useful and accurate results. Specifically, it allows independently designed...

• The original Broker pattern contains a client-side and server-side proxy participant, which encapsulate system-specific functionality such as marshaling of requests and responses and mediation between client and requestor, and invoker and servant, respectively. Broker Revisited replaces these participants by encapsulating their responsibilities within other participants. Proxies are only need...

We study trading models when the distribution of signals such as costs or values is not known to traders or the mechanism designer when the profit-maximizing trading procedure is designed. We present adaptive mechanisms that simultaneously elicit this information (market research) while maintaining incentive compatibility and maximizing profits when the set of traders is large (market design). ...

We have witnessed considerable research investigating trust between agents in multi-agent systems. However, the issue of trust between agents and users has rarely been reported in the literature. In this paper, we describe our experiences with ITRUST, a multi-agent artificial market system whose software broker agent can learn to build a relatively long-term trust relationship with their client...

The World Wide Web provides new opportunities for collecting information from distributed, multiple, and heterogeneous data sources. Information brokering can be used to provide coordinated access to these sources if they are structured or semi-structured. The BUSTER (Bremen University Semantic Translator for Enhanced Retrieval) approach provides enabling technologies for information search and...

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This study examines the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) World Bank, two largest global actors in education sector, their capacity as knowledge brokers. For these actors, positioning themselves between research policy circulating versions of evidence has become a popular governance instrument to amplify impact at national level. To compare strategies targets OECD we ...