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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 18:44:21 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Robert Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DCSB: Tim Middelkoop; Software Agent Systems for Digital Commerce
Cc: Tim Middelkoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ari Jeuls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nelson Minar)
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The Digital Commerce Society of Boston
Presents
Tim Middelkoop
Developer, Agent Systems,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Designing Software Agent Systems
for Digital Commerce
Tuesday, July 6th, 1999
12 - 2 PM
The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston
One Federal Street, Boston, MA
As agent based systems move out of the controlled laboratory and
simulated environment into real world applications, they face
significant design and operational challenges. We attempt to
highlight some of the major issues involved in the design and
implementation of agent based applications. Our intent is not to
prescribe specific solutions or actions, which will depend on the
application domain, scope and resources available, but to make the
reader aware of the issues which need serious consideration when using
agents to tackle real world problems in digital commerce.
Tim Middelkoop is a doctoral student studying at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst. His background in agent systems comes from
his entrepreneurial experiences and developing an agent based
integrated design system for the aerospace industry. Current research
directions include the area of large scale distributed agent systems
and more specifically their fundamental properties such as convergence
rationality and how they relate to real world applications. Specific
application areas include using agents for supply chain coordination
and testing properties of real agent systems.
This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held
on Tuesday, July 6, 1999, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of
the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for
lunch is $32.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V
hardware, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club *does* have
dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and
"appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair
warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be
unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in
violation of the dress code.
We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we
*really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of
Boston", by Saturday, July 3rd, or you won't be on the list for
lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston
will have to be sent back.
Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston,
Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The
Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $32.50. Please include your
e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation
If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements
(We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for
instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can
work something out.
Upcoming speakers for DCSB are:
August Ari Jeuls Digital Bearer Contingent Claims using X-Cash
We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston
on the first Tuesday of the month, and you are a principal in digital
commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society,
please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert
Hettinga, <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston,
send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail
list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .
We look forward to seeing you there!
Cheers,
Robert Hettinga
Moderator,
The Digital Commerce Society of Boston
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44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
