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This module starts with the overview of the current landscape of e-Business and e-Commerce as its integral part. The advantages, the challenges and the pitfalls of e-Business are presented through the analysis of several cases and trough the introduction of several e-Business scenarios. The summary of the essential technological features is given in result, leading the class to the motivation of using agent-based technologies in e-Business. The
module continues with introducing the students to the notion of an agent, and leads lead them to an understanding of what an agent is, how it can be designed, and how agents can be made to cooperate effectively with one-another and thus to provide solutions and technologies which may underpin e-Business implementations. The following part of the module is devoted to the discussion of semantic interoperability among rational artificial actors (agents) in open organizations. The module introduces the class to the notion of ontology and the ways ontologies are used in open multiagent systems to make agents cooperate successfully. The rest of the module presents the spectrum of current accomplishments of agent-based e-Business solutions. Module topics are illustrated by the examples relative to the given business scenarios.