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Are intelligent e-commerce agents partners or predators?

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 45, Issue 5

Pages 84 - 90

https://doi.org/10.1145/506218.506220

Published: 01 May 2002 Publication History

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Mobile agents are changing the face of e-business and reshaping business models. In the process these agents are also posing new concerns regarding who really owns information.

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The Adaptive Web

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