Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce II [[electronic resource] ] : Towards Next-Generation Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Systems / / edited by Alexandros Moukas, Carles Sierra, Fredrik Ygge

• Record Nr.: UNISA996465942203316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2000
• ISBN: 3-540-44982-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2000.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (IX, 242 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; ; 1788
• Disciplina: 658.8/4
• Soggetti: Artificial intelligence; Computer communication systems; Application software; Computers and civilization; Information technology; Business—Data processing; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Computers and Society; IT in Business
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Shopbots and Pricebots -- Civil Agent Societies: Tools for Inventing Open Agent-Mediated Electronic Marketplaces -- Legal Issues for Personalised Advertising on Internet: The AIMedia Case Study -- Energy Resellers - An Endangered Species? -- Modeling Supply Chain Formation in Multiagent Systems -- Jangter: A Novel Agent-Based Electronic Marketplace -- Bid Selection Strategies for Multi-agent Contracting in the Presence of Scheduling Constraints -- Resource Allocation Using Sequential Auctions -- Profit-Driven Matching in E-Marketplaces: Trading Composable Commodities -- Two-Sided Learning in an Agent Economy for Information Bundles -- Optimal Auction Design for Agents with Hard Valuation Problems -- Auctions ; without Auctioneers: Distributed Auction Protocols.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Internet is spawning many new markets and electronic commerce is changing many market conventions. Not only are old commercial practices being adapted to the new conditions of immediacy brought forth by the global networks, but new products and services, as well as new practices, are beginning to appear. There is already ample evidence that agent-based technologies will be crucial for these - velopments. However many theoretical, technological, sociological, and legal - pects will need to be addressed before such opportunities become a significant reality. In addition to streamlining traditional transactions, agents enable new types of transactions. For example, the elusive one-to-one marketing becomes more of a - ality when consumer agents capture and share (or sell) consumer demographics. Prices and other transaction dimensions need no longer to be fixed; selling agents can dynamically tailor merchant offerings to each consumer. Economies of scale become feasible in new markets when agents negotiate on special arbitration c- tracts. Dynamic business relationships will give rise to more competitively agile organizations. It is these new opportunities combined with substantial reduction in transaction costs that will revolutionize electronic commerce.

Ordinary Oralities : Everyday Voices in History / / ed. by Josephine Hoegaerts, Janice Schroeder

• Record Nr.: UNISA996543162203316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: München ; ; Wien : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023]; ©2023
• ISBN: 3-11-107937-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VI, 204 p.)
• Disciplina: 907.2
• Soggetti: HISTORY / General; Case studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Ordinary Oralities: Introduction -- I -- Becoming Kuniong: Vocal Encounter and Female Missionary Work in Gutian, China (1893–1895) -- “Good evening, you hag”: Verbalizing Unhappy Marriages in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam -- Sounding Sex: Erotic Oralities in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Archive -- George Catlin’s Shut Your Mouth, the Biopolitics of Voice, and the Problem of the “Stuttering Indian” -- II -- Reading Olaudah Aloud: Elocution, the Commodity-Form, and Transverse Culture -- Traces of the Ordinary: The Guthrie Brothers and the Voices of Victorian “Nobodies” -- A Shifting Swarm of Vocalities: An Assemblage Approach to PA Systems and Morning Assemblies in Finnish Primary Schools (1930s–1980s) -- III -- Performing Waulking Songs as an Emotional Practice in Gaelic Scotland -- Voicing Imperial Order, Identity, and Resistance: The Singing of British Child Migrants -- The Speechless Patient: Charcot’s Diagnostic Interpretation of Vocal, Gestural, and Written Expressions in Hysterical Mutism -- Afterword -- Speak, Shout, Beseech – Making History in the Streets of the Eighteenth Century: Afterword -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Histories of voice are often written as accounts of greatness: great statesmen, notable rebels, grands discours, and famous exceptional speakers and singers populate our shelves. This focus on the great and ; exceptional has not only led to disproportionate attention to a small subset of historical actors (powerful, white, western men and the occasional token woman), but also obscures the broad range of vocal practices that have informed, co-created and given meaning to human lives and interactions in the past. For most historical actors, life did not consist of grand public speeches, but of private conversations, intimate whispers, hot gossip or interminable quarrels. This volume suggests an extended practice of eavesdropping: rather than listening out for exceptional voices, it listens in on the more mundane aspects of vocality, including speech and song, but also less formalized shouts, hisses, noises and silences. Ranging from the Scottish highlands to China, from the bedroom to the platform, and from the 18th until the 20th century, contributions to this volume seek out spaces and moments that have been documented idiosyncratically or with difficulty, and where the voice and its sounds can be of particular salience. In doing so, the volume argues for a heightened attention to who speaks, and whose voices resound in history, but refuses to take the modern equation between speech and presence/representation for granted.