A Practitioners' Review of Industrial Agent Applications

ERIM's¹ Center for Electronic Commerce (CEC) hosted a two-day Workshop on Industrial Agents (WINA) in Ann Arbor, MI on Nov. 12–13, 1998. Participation in the workshop was by invitation only, and was restricted to companies with whom the CEC is doing business or developing collaborations in agent technologies. Because of its industrial focus, the workshop's objectives have a rather different emphasis than research-oriented workshops and conferences. The projects discussed at the workshop and summarized in this report fall into three areas of increasing generality: focused applications, broadly applicable tools, and methodological guidelines.