Publications(January 2002 - December 2002)

1. Runhe Huang, Tao Huang, Jianhua Ma, T. Yamazaki, and M. Osano, "An Enhanced extended Bazaar Model Based E-shopping System", The Journal of Three Dimensional Images, pp96-101, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2002.
   Abstract - With a reasonable negotiation model, shopping agents can negotiate intelligently on behalf of real-world's users to find a solution that maximizes the utility for all users. This paper presents an online shopping system that includes shopping agents, such as buyer agents and seller agents, which are based on an enhanced extended Bazaar model and demonstrates how a shopping agent negotiates intelligently with counter party regarding a product on behalf of a user it represents.
2. Tao Huang, Runhe Huang, and Jianhua Ma, "A Hybrid Negotiation Model for an E-trading System", The Journal of Three Dimensional Images, pp90-95, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2002.
   Abstract - In this paper, a new negotiation model, called a hybrid negotiation model, is proposed. The hybrid negotiation model is a combination of an extended Bazaar model (a sequential decision making based Bayesian learning model) and a "lose bounded" Nash bargaining solution. With the proposed negotiation model, agents that represent buyers and sellers in the real-life can negotiate in an intelligent way to effectively and efficiently reach agreement and optimize their individual utility function, respectively, in a trading business. How learning in negotiations is proceeding and how common knowledge and public information are employed to make initial strategies of negotiations are described in details.
3. Q. Jin, T. Numata, S. Tekizawa, Z. Peng and Jianhua Ma, "A Pee-to-Peer Information Exchange and Sharing for Learning Communities", in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Multimedia Distance Education Software and Technology (MDEST'02), San Francisco, USA, September 2002.
   Abstract - Online learning communities are a promising paradigm for networked e-learning and distance education. We have proposed a conceptual framework for every-citizen online learning communities, to provide a virtual environment that widely opens to anyone who has the will to learn and to share knowledge with others. This study aims at exploring new ways of peer-to-peer e-learning. In this paper, we focus on discussing a new mechanism of peer-to-peer information exchange and sharing for online learning communities. We propose a person-to-person information exchange model that connects two learners based on peer-to-peer concepts, and develop a system that supports more sophisticated matchmaking in a peer learner's encounter to discover a person across the peer-to-peer networks who may exchange information, share files, and collaborate each other. We further develop an improved peer-to-peer file sharing system with attribute descriptions in XML.
4. M. Nakamura and Jianhua Ma, "A Pee-to-Peer Shared Web Browser", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Multimedia System (DMS'02), San Francisco, USA, September 2002.
   Abstract - This paper presents design and implementation of a shared web browser system that enables multi-users to navigate on the Internet by synchronously sharing web documents. Different from other client/server based shared web browsers, our system is based on a pure peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture without using any server. It is implemented using JXTA protocols and Java programming language. Thus it is transport protocol independent and can be applied to any platform. It supports not only sharing a web document but also viewing the document and manipulating the browser synchronously. Some group users' awareness information like a user's moving a cursor, entering a new URL and clicking a hyperlink is also provided in the system. Its experimental environments and tested results are also described.
5. H. Koizumi and Jianhua Ma, "Design and Implementation of a Framework for Distributed Multi-Agent System", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Multimedia System (DMS'02), San Francisco, USA, September 2002.
   Abstract - This paper describes an application framework for distributed multi-agent systems developed and implemented. At this time, this framework defines a model of a single agent, which is an extension of the Sensor-Professor-Effector Model, and also defines the architecture of a multi-agent system and moreover, mainly focuses on the communications among multiple agents. Using this framework, high independence and interoperability of the agents can be realized, and then flexibility can be given to multi-agent systems developed with the framework. The feasibility of the framework was evaluated by implementing an arithmetic multi-agent system, which has a capability of calculating integral polynomials by interactions among multiple arithmetic agents.
6. Timothy K. Shih, Lawrence Y. Deng, Teh-Sheng Huang, Jianhua Ma and R. Huang, Journal of Advanced Software Research, 2002.
   Abstract - In this paper, we proposed a tracking and persistent agent-based mobility management system in case of distance learning. The main purpose of our system is addressed to achieve the universal access objective. In order to let the whole mobility management system full play, firstly, we proposed a mobile agent communication model and the mobile agent evolution states. Secondly, we encapsulate the utility tools to be a role-setting object, which is an application-driven component that can provide customization benefits for user and match the user's demands.

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