BotSpot: Commerce Bots

BotSpot Categories Commerce Bots
A Sound and Complete Distributed Algorithm for Distributed Commerce Transactions	A sound and Complete Distributed Algorithm for Distributed Commerce Transactions by Steven P. Ketchpel and Hector Garcia-Molina of the Stanford Digital Library Project. In situations where self-interested agents are interacting in an environment of distrust, commercial exchanges may be blocked due to a lack of trust. We propose a fully distributed algorithm that each agent may run to provide minimum guarantees about the outcomes of such exchanges. The algorithm is shown in operation on two examples, one feasible and one not, and is proven to be sound and complete. The algorithm is extended to consider situations in which direct trust does exist between certain participants and those with deadlines for completion. Examples and proofs of soundness and completeness are given for these extensions as well.
Agent-Based Manufacturing Laboratory	UC's Agent-Based Manufacturing Laboratory gives information about its director, students, projects and a comprehensive listing of publications.
Agent-Based Market Space	Agent-Based Market Space - Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce. The vision is to enable automation of electronic commerce, focused on the interaction in a market (like searching, negotiation, deal settlement) using agents. Each participant in the market (whichever role he/she has) have an agent that automate the interactions partially or fully. The site offers an overview of the AMP (Agent-Based Marketplace Project), Models, Documents, Agent Toolkit and Electronic Commerce/Agents Links.
AgentBuilder Agents for Electronic Commerce	This application note describes a simple Electronic Commerce application built using AgentBuilder, an integrated toolkit that enables you to create intelligent agents quickly and easily. This application consists of three interacting agents: one Buyer Agent and two Store Agents. Each kind of Agent has a different role and different capabilities. Although this example features only two Store Agents, the Buyer Agent is able to interact with any number of Store Agents.
Agentis	The innovative software technologies pioneered by the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII) have been invested within Agentis Business Solutions. Now, through Agentis International, the benefits of this approach can be realized by organizations throughout the world.
Agents in Commerce	Give a listing of Agents in Commerce and companies currently involved in the creation of commerce agents.
ALife-BannerBot	An interactive banner advertisement that uses natural language processing to interact with users and leads visitors to your site. Bannerbot is unlike any other ordinary banner advertisement. Visitors to a Bannerbot are greeted by a virtual character that invites them to interact with the banner, thereby not only increasing click through rates but actually engaging the user in an interactive discourse. Once a user clicks on the banner, he or she can begin to converse with the banner and request company information using plain words - in any language.
ALife-Messenger	An intelligent e-mail reponse bot that automatically generates appropriate, intelligent, and immediate reponses. ALife-Messenger interprets e-mail using natural language processing and advanced decision-making techniques. In addition to sending immediate and accurate replies, ALife-Messenger can forward or copy e-mail messages, and it can attach relevant documents, URLs, and multimedia, video or audio content. You can use ALife-Messenger to filter Spam mail.
ALife-WebGuide	Helps people navigate Web sites by talking with an intelligent smart bot. WebGuide understands natural language.Web site visitors request information using plain words – in any language! WebGuide converses with the visitor and displays relevant pages. If users are unsure which products or services best suit their needs,the bot performs an analysis by asking relevant questions.WebGuide then makes recommendations based on the answers it receives. All user-bot conversations are logged and this information is stored in the User Profiling System. The User Profile allows you to identify and keep a history of user-bot conversations.
AuctionBot	AuctionBot is a multi-purpose Internet Auction server developed at the University of Michigan. Use the AuctionBot to create automated Internet auctions according to your specifications, or bid in existing AuctionBot auctions.
Bazaar	Bazaar proposes to transform electronic commerce on the Internet by providing an open marketplace infrastructure for commerce agents of various complexity to negotiate for goods and services on behalf of their owners.
BOTizen	This product features a host of customizable customer service agents who can bring rapid service response to your Web site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
CITM's Negotiation in Electronic Commerce Project	This project, conducted by Professor Arie Segev and Carrie Beam, seeks to address the issues of theory and implementation for negotiation processes within the context of electronic commerce. Negotiation within electronic commerce must provide two major capabilities: the capability to negotiate in a fair, intelligent, timely manner; and the capability to incorporate the characteristics made possible by the Internet and the Web - those of global reach, multi-party participation, asynchronous contribution, distributed processing and computational speed.
Colony	Colony is a system of distributed autonomous agents and applications, designed to manage one of the biggest problems facing corporations, organizations, and individuals today - getting maximum advantage from the enormous, rapidly expanding and enriched networked resources of content (data, information and knowledge) stored in many formats across all the platforms in their organization and beyond.
CommerceNet	CommerceNet is the premier industry association for Internet Commerce established in April, 1994. All commerce issues concerning the Internet are discussed in various CommerceNet's Task Forces and Special Interest Groups.
Economic Agents	Using results from computational and experimental economics, economic agents generate offers and bids for goods that lead to an optimum distribution of resource within the market. This market can be artificial, designed to allocate scarce resources such as memory or network bandwidth, or real, and involve the buying and selling of commodities. Current focus is on creating agent-based automated markets for business to business trading of commodities.
FishMarket Project	The FishMarket Project studies how to build agent-mediated institutions that may prove useful for electronic commerce. FishMarket is an electronic auction house, based upon the traditional fish market, where agents of arbitrary complexity may trade over a reliable network under fair, robust and lively conditions.
HEDG: Hyper- Economy Development Group	HEDG: Hyper-Economy Development Group is a small distributed research group working on theory and practical implementation of multi-agent systems combining flows of knowledge and value data. The HEDG pages at this point are a working communications medium for the group.
ICARIS	Intelligent Commercial and Research Information Systems (ICARIS) is a resource site for researchers who are investigating the automated (no human involvement) Business processes, the design, construction and interoperation of state-of-the-art Business Information systems and those which might evolve in the future.
Industry.Net	Industry.Net is an excellent resource for business information including the latest uses of agent technology online.
Kasbah	The goal of the Kasbah system is to help realize a fundamental transformation in the way people transact goods - from requiring constant monitoring and effort, to a system where a software agent does most of the work on the user's behalf. Related papers and links are available here.
Market Based Multi Agent Systems Resource Page	The Market Based Multi Agent Systems Resource Page includes listings of researchers, groups, research and publications, systems, tools and general information in the area of market based or economically inspired computing.
MarketNet	MarketNet: A Survivable, Market-Based Architecture for Large-Scale Information Systems. The MarketNet Project is developing novel technologies, based on economic mechanisms, to ensure the systematic, quantifiable and predictable survivability of large-scale information systems.
MetaRun	MetaRun's Commerce Platform provides portals, destination sites, ISPs, corporate portals, and wireless content providers with a privately labeled and fully customizable product search, comparison shopping, and universal shopping cart.
NativeMinds	NativeMinds features virtual representatives (vReps) created using the NeuroServer Suite from NativeMinds. These bots can answer any questions you have about NativeMinds and its virtual representative technology with facial expressions that match their responses. vReps such as Nicole provide a best-fit response in conversational language. Nicole will even remember your name each time you visit the site.
Negotiation in Electronic Commerce Resources and Projects	A comprehensive page of resources and projects dedicated to negotiation in electronic commerce protocols, standards and agents.
Office Avatars	The goals of Office Avatars project is to investigate the use of autonomous avatars in the workplace. In particular they are interested in the role of an avatar as a personal representative which can provide useful information or other utility when the avatar's owner cannot be present.
PriceScan	PriceScan is your unbiased guide to the lowest computer prices. Other sites show you only the prices they are paid to list. PriceScan shows you all competitive prices.
The AmEC Initiative	The Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce (AmEC) Initiative investigates how software agent technologies can expedite the electronic commerce revolution. Issues addressed include distributed component-based marketplaces, open and extensible languages and protocols for locating and defining goods and services, merchant differentiation, value-based product comparisons, buying decision aids, negotiation protocols, visualization of marketplace data and activities, and issues of trust, reputation, security, marketing, intermediaries, as well as the socioeconomic implications of next generation agent-mediated electronic commerce systems.
The Future of Electronic Commerce	With the announcement of a commercial Intelligent Agent standard for electronic commerce, these agents are trained to do work for you while you are not on the Internet. This site gives an overview and state-of-the-art information on commerce agents.
The JAM Project	The JAM Project is a collaboration with the Financial Services Consortium (FSTC) including Chase, First Union and Citibank as well as Columbia University and Florida Tech. System developments are targeted to Java and are platform independent. Use of local classifier agents and meta-learning agents allowing financial institutions to inspect, classify and label each incoming secured electronic transaction.