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Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce III

Current Issues in Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Systems

By: Frank Dignum,Ulises Cortes

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Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce III

Current Issues in Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Systems

By: Frank Dignum,Ulises Cortes

This book presents 12 revised full papers on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: seven papers were initially presented at the AMEC 2000 Workshop and the five others were solicited by the volume editors in order to achieve competent coverage of all relevant topics. The book is divided in topical sections on electronic negotiation models for agents, formal issues for agents operating on electronic market places, virtual trading institutions and platforms, and trading strategies for interrelated transactions.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540417494

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9783540417491

Data Grab

The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back

By: Ulises A. Mejias,Nick Couldry

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Data Grab

The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back

By: Ulises A. Mejias,Nick Couldry

A compelling argument that the extractive practices of today’s tech giants are the continuation of colonialism—and a crucial guide to collective resistance. Large technology companies like Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet have unprecedented access to our daily lives, collecting information when we check our email, count our steps, shop online, and commute to and from work. Current events are concerning—both the changing owners (and names) of billion-dollar tech companies and regulatory concerns about artificial intelligence underscore the sweeping nature of Big Tech’s surveillance and the influence such companies hold over the people who use their apps and platforms. As trusted tech experts Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry show in this eye-opening and convincing book, this vast accumulation of data is not the accidental stockpile of a fast-growing industry. Just as nations stole territories for ill-gotten minerals and crops, wealth, and dominance, tech companies steal personal data important to our lives. It’s only within the framework of colonialism, Mejias and Couldry argue, that we can comprehend the full scope of this heist. Like the land grabs of the past, today’s data grab converts our data into raw material for the generation of corporate profit against our own interests. Like historical colonialism, today’s tech corporations have engineered an extractive form of doing business that builds a new social and economic order, leads to job precarity, and degrades the environment. These methods deepen global inequality, consolidating corporate wealth in the Global North and engineering discriminatory algorithms. Promising convenience, connection, and scientific progress, tech companies enrich themselves by encouraging us to relinquish details about our personal interactions, our taste in movies or music, and even our health and medical records. Do we have any other choice? Data Grab affirms that we do. To defy this new form of colonialism we will need to learn from previous forms of resistance and work together to imagine entirely new ones. Mejias and Couldry share the stories of voters, workers, activists, and marginalized communities who have successfully opposed unscrupulous tech practices. An incisive discussion of the digital media that’s transformed our world, Data Grab is a must-read for anyone concerned about privacy, self-determination, and justice in the internet age.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226832317

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9780226832319

Advanced Agent-Based Environmental Management Systems

By: Ulises Cortes Garcia,Manel Poch

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Advanced Agent-Based Environmental Management Systems

By: Ulises Cortes Garcia,Manel Poch

Multi-agent Systems (MAS) are one of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence meanwhile Environmental Studies is a research area of strategic interest. Both areas can provide society with solutions for many real applications, in order to use and protect the environment. Human activities imply intervention into nature, but properly managed, these interventions can not be only ecologically sound but also favourable to the sustainable development of civilisation. The encounter between these fields is a new challenge for many researchers of both communities. This book presents a comprehensive reference of state-of-the-art efforts. Specifically, it presents current and future ways in which adaptive information technologies, techniques, protocols and architectures, such as software agent technologies and multi-agent systems, can be used to support the development of real-world agent-based systems in the area of e-Environment.

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3764389001

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Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce III

Current Issues in Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Systems

By: Frank Dignum,Ulises Cortes

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Current Issues in Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Systems

By: Frank Dignum,Ulises Cortes

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Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce III

Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce III

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Data Grab

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Advanced Agent-Based Environmental Management Systems

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