• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.58-71
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• 2005

Intelligent agents help automate various tasks, including automated negotiations, on-line auction, and buying/selling products over the Internet. To date, most of the agents are developed only for experiments and some of them are implemented on the limited areas such as an auction. The main objective of this paper is to provide a brief overview of negotiation agents. In doing so, previous studies on negotiation agent systems are revisited and then applications in the real world are reviewed. The limitations on the current negotiation agents are defined and future research directions are suggested.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.145-159
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• 2005

The main purpose of this study is to statistically analyze the difference between Korea and Japan's consumer attitudes towards e-commerce through the use of auction websites. Here are the results. First, there was a significant difference between the Korean user's attitude and the Japanese user's attitude towards Internet usage; especially, the Japanese user's attitude towards convenience showed a much higher degree than that of the Korean user. Second, Korean users preferred brand image to price, while Japanese users preferred price to brand image. Third, both the Korean users and the Japanese showed a positive relationship between Internet usage and the use of e-commerce. In contrast to the Korean user's frequent use of the bulletin board, Japanese users tended to use the bulletin board less frequently.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2002.03a
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• pp.39-51
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• 2002

Online exchange is a cost-effective approach to trade goods and information among multiple sellers and buyers. Shipping industry includes lots of global entities such as shippers, liners, ship owners and shipping agents. Marine insurance companies and ship repairers and many other groups are also supporting the industry. However, international shipping exchanges are located on few cities in the world. Its our motivation that a shipping market can be online so that market participants do the dealing while sitting where they are with more efficient manner, preferable price and larger pool of candidates of trading partners. This paper presents Korean governmental project of building a cyber shipping exchange. The exchange covers ship sale and purchase, charter, insurance, freight futures, repairs, supplying of ships oil and database service. The workflows of each business were analyzed and designed to fit for online environment. The project includes design of trading mechanism, online documents, data flow, data storage and security. Online match making and trading mechanisms such as auction, reverse auction, bid are used. The whole trading process involves multiple organizations and business processes. So, this Paper focuses on how each organization would play their roles so that users can complete transactions with integrated and transparent view. The online exchange selves also as maritime portal site that links to other sites for cooperation vertically or horizontally, and serves database and information in global perspective. This paper also issues and discusses the justification of an online shipping exchange

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.272-276
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• 2000

컴퓨터 및 인터넷의 대중화가 급속도로 이루어지면서 전자상거래의 한 부분인 전자경매에 대한 관심과 개발이 상당부분 이루어지고 있다. 웹을 통한 전자경매의 발달로 직접 경매장에 가지 않고서도 적은 비용으로 다양한 상품들을 구매 및 판매할 수 있으므로 소비자와 공급자 모두에게 편의성과 이익을 제공해 주고 있다. 한편 에이전트에 대한 관심이 높아지면서 전자경매 시스템에 이를 적용하여 경매참여자의 편의성과 효율성을 증대시키려는 노력들도 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 대표적인 에이전트 기반 전자경매 시스템으로는 미국 워싱턴대학의 eMediator, 미시건대학의 AuctionBot, 스웨덴의 FishMarket 등이 있다. 이들 시스템들은 지원하는 경매유형, 입찰가격정책, 상품유형, 경매대상, 에이전트의 역할 및 기능등에서 상당한 차이를 보이고 있다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 전자경매시스템은 특히 경매참여자인 사용자의 편의성과 경매관리 및 운영의 안정성을 목표로 하고 있다. 에이전트 기반의 전자경매 시스템을 개발함으로써 기본적으로 사용자 인터페이스를 통한 경매참여와 사용자가 직접 에이전트를 생성하여 이동시킴으로써 경매에 참여하는 방법을 제공한다. 두 방법 모두 참여자가 직접 경매에 참여하는 것이 아니고 에이전트를 통해 언제 어디서나 경매에 참여하여 원하는 가격대로 상품을 구매하거나 팔 수 있도록 시스템을 개발하는데 목적이 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.1190-1195
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• 2000

상거래의 의미가 곧 전자상거래로 대변될 만큼 전자상거래의 전성기를 맞이하고 있으며 국내도 예외는 아니다. 전자상거래방식을 기초로 하는 인터넷 경매는 경매인과 입찰자의 상호의사표현을 통한 거래를 인터넷으로 하는 것을 말한다. 인터넷 경매에 있어서 에이전트는 입찰자, 경매인, 중개인의 경매 참여자를 대신하여 업무를 대행해주거나 결정을 도와주는 소프트웨어라고 정의할 수 있다. 기존 인터넷 경매에서의 에이전트는 단순한 검색기능과 광고만을 대행하고 있고, 경매인이 물품등록을 하고자 할 때, 주관적인 가치평가에 의해 경매시작가를 결정해야 한다. 이러한 경매인의 주관적인 경매시작가는 높은 경매시작가로 인해 유찰이 되거나 낮은 경매시작가로 낙찰가가 낮아 불이익을 가져온다. 따라서 본 논문은 경매인이 등록하고자 하는 물품에 대한 사례 경매 데이터베이스의 경매기록을 기초로 경매시작가를 분석된 정보를 제공하는 경매 정보 시스템(Auction Information System)을 제안하고자 한다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.70-81
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• 2022

This study derived implications regarding competition policy to establish a reasonable spectrum allocation draft of a 3.7 GHz spectrum band by indepth analysis of 5G spectrum auctions. The following general features were identified by examining auctions of three countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Denmark, were completed in 2021. First, securing the minimum bandwidth that is essential for service competition was guaranteed by applying the spectrum cap. Second, a continuous spectrum band was allocated to all mobile network operators. Third, certain requirements were implemented to encourage the expansion of 5G service coverage. The spectrum cap that was implemented in Korea during the most recent spectrum auction was ineffective regarding competition policy. Additionally, it is anticipated that the allocation of 3.7-4.0 GHz spectrum will considerably impact market competition because the continuity of spectrum band is different among mobile service operators. Therefore, it is time to discuss promoting the 5G service competition in Korea by revising related laws.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.3638-3657
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• 2022

In urban vehicular edge computing (VEC) environments, one edge server always serves many task requests in its coverage which results in the resource-constrained problem. To resolve the problem and improve system utilization, we first design a general hierarchical resource management framework based on typical VEC network structures. Following the framework, a specific interacting protocol is also designed for our decision algorithm. Secondly, a greedy bidding-based multi-hop task scheduling decision algorithm is proposed to realize effective task scheduling in resource-constrained VEC environments. In this algorithm, the goal of maximizing system utility is modeled as an optimization problem with the constraints of task deadlines and available computing resources. Then, an auction mechanism named greedy bidding is used to match task requests to edge servers in the case of multiple hops to maximize the system utility. Simulation results show that our proposal can maximize the number of tasks served in resource constrained VEC networks and improve the system utility.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.827-834
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• 2009

In respond to the demand of an open, fair, transparent, and efficient environment for procurement, many governments have incorporated the use of internet in their procurement systems with online procurement (e-procurement). Given the different policies and laws which have to be complied with, the practice of government e-procurement system varies from one country to another. Thus, experiences in running e-procurement will vary as well. The achievements and obstacles of one country's experience will be a constructive reference for other countries in establishing e-procurement system. In this regard, government e-procurement system practices in two Southeast Asia countries i.e., Thailand and Indonesia particularly in public works are consecutively presented and finally compared in this paper. The government of Thailand has applied Online Auctions (e-Auctions) as the national procurement practice since 2005 and performed the e-Auctions in two types: Reverse Auction and Sealed Bid Auction. Contrary to the common practice of e-procurement, the Thai government, with some rationales, runs the bid documents obtaining manually as well as qualification and technical documents submission and holding the e-Auctions at bidding office. Whereas Indonesian government runs Online Sealed Bid Bidding (e-Procurement) and most of the bidding stages are performed electronically except bid evaluation for both technical and financial. The advantages and drawbacks of these two e-procurement practices are discussed as well as improvements that have to be made for successful of e-procurement.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.14
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• pp.17-37
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• 2004

This research is speak that is tendencious in comprehension of external consumer information search behavior using on-line external information source to consumers who use on-line that is used as corporations' main strategic means. That is, classify consumer groups which was atomized according to type inflict consumer's information search knowledge level and shopping value study which use on-line, and decision factors of information search that these groups can influence a difference or each group which use information sources grasped what it is. Result that investigate information search knowledge level difference about study finding on-line information source utilization used mainly portal site, comparison site, auction site. And, utilization shopping pursuit value group used information source by portal site, auction site, niche shopping mall site and hedonic shopping pursuit value group used information source by portal site, auction site, shopping mall site. It confirmed that all variables(i.e. consumer-based variable and web site-based variable) are influencing variously in on-line external information search types. Finally, we proposed different way to erect strategic model about consumers that use on-line with study finding that see.

• Journal of Climate Change Research
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.325-342
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• 2018

The Korea Emissions Trading Scheme ( K-ETS), which manages roughly 70% of the greenhouse gas emissions in South Korea, was initiated in 2015, after implementation of its 1st basic plan and the 1st allocation plan (2014) for the 1st phase (2015-2017). During the three and a half years since the launch of K-ETS, there have been critical policy change such as adjustment of the institutions involved, development and revision of the 2030 national GHG reduction roadmap, and change in the allocation plans. Moreover, lack of liquidity and fluctuation of carbon prices in the K-ETS market during this period has forced the Korean government to adjust the flexibility mechanism and auction permits of the market stability reserve. To evaluate the policy change in the K-ETS regarding conformance to its objectives, this study defines three objectives (Environmental Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness and Economic Efficiency) and ten indicators. Evaluation of Environmental Effectiveness of K-ETS suggests that the national GHG reduction roadmap, coverage of GHG emitters and credibility of MRV positively affect GHG mitigation. However, there was a negative policy change implemented in 2017 that weakened the emission cap during the 1st phase. In terms of the Cost Effectiveness, the K-ETS policies related to market management and flexibility mechanism (e.g. banking, borrowing and offsets) were improved to deal with the liquidity shortage and permit price increase, which were caused by policy uncertainty and conservative behavior of firms during 2016-2018. Regarding Economic Efficiency, K-ETS expands benchmark?based allocation and began auction-based allocation; nevertheless, free allocation is being applied to sectors with high carbon leakage risk during the 2nd phase (2018-2020). As a result, it is worth evaluating the K-ETS policies that have been developed with respect to the three main objectives of ETS, considering the trial?and?error approach that has been followed since 2015. This study suggests that K-ETS policy should be modified to strengthen the emission cap, stabilize the market, expand auction-based allocation and build K-ETS specified funds during the 3rd phase (2021-2025).