Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences
Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences
Developing capabilities to use information strategically
MIS Quarterly
Sustaining IT advantage: the role of structural differences
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on the strategic use of information systems
Task-technology fit and individual performance
MIS Quarterly
Distributed decision-making using the contract net within a mediator architecture
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: intelligent agents as a basis for decision support systems
Software agents for cooperative learning
Software agents
The emerging role of electronic marketplaces on the Internet
Communications of the ACM
A market architecture for multi-agent contracting
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Competitive scenarios for heterogeneous trading agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
The Michigan Internet AuctionBot: a configurable auction server for human and software agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
A smart itsy bitsy spider for the web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: artificial intelligence techniques for emerging information systems applications
Readings in Machine Learning
Computers play the beer game: can artificial agents manage supply chains?
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Formal modeling and electronic commerce
Agent-Based Supply Chain Integration
Information Technology and Management
A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
The FindMe Approach to Assisted Browsing
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Developing an Automated Distributed Meeting Scheduler
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Intelligent Agents on the Internet: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Pattie Maes on Software Agents: Humanizing The Global Computer
IEEE Internet Computing
Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
ECAI '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Evaluating the Impact of Dss, Cognitive Effort, and Incentives on Strategy Selection
Information Systems Research
Information Systems Research
Design of an agent-based framework for processes collaboration in electronic marketplace
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
Gulliver's Genie: a multi-agent system for ubiquitous and intelligent content delivery
Computer Communications
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
On-demand e-supply chain integration: A multi-agent constraint-based approach
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Do men and women use feedback provided by their Decision Support Systems (DSS) differently?
Decision Support Systems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Information Market-Based Decision Fusion
Management Science
Agent-based negotiation and decision making for dynamic supply chain formation
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
The end of the information system life: a model of is discontinuance
ACM SIGMIS Database
A multi-agent based system for e-procurement exception management
Knowledge-Based Systems
An agent based approach for exception handling in e-procurement management
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A cross-country comparison of the adoption of ubiquitous supply chain management
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Fostering Networked Business Operations: A Framework for B2B Electronic Intermediary Development
International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies
Agent-enabled service-oriented decision support systems
Decision Support Systems
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
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Recently, researchers have begun investigating an emerging, technology-enabled innovation that involves the use of intelligent software agents in enterprise supply chains. Software agents combine and integrate capabilities of several information technology classes in a novel manner that enables supply chain management and decision making in modes not supported previously by IT and not reported previously in the information systems literature. Indeed, federations and swarms of software agents today are moving the boundaries of computer-aided decision making more generally. Such moving boundaries highlight promising new opportunities for competitive advantage in business, in addition to novel theoretical insights. But they also call for shifting research thrusts in information systems. The stream of research associated with this article is taking some first steps to address such issues by examining experimentally the capabilities, limitations, and boundaries of agent technology for computer-based decision support and automation in the procurement domain. Procurement represents an area of particular potential for agent-based process innovation, as well as reflecting some of the greatest technological advances in terms of agents emerging from the laboratory. Procurement is imbued with considerable ambiguity in its task environment, ambiguity that presents a fundamental limitation to IT-based automation of decision making and knowledge work. By investigating the comparative performance of human and software agents across varying levels of ambiguity in the procurement domain, the experimentation described in this article helps to elucidate some new boundaries of computer-based decision making quite broadly. We seek in particular to learn from this domain and to help inform computer-based decision making, agent technological design, and IS research more generally.