The popularity of Craigslist has enabled users worldwide to find almost any product at prices significantly less than retail prices or market-prices. Craigslist has thus enabled lot of resellers to enter the market and has created a huge market for used/pre-owned products. The key to find products at prices less than their market-prices is to find the right classified and act immediately before other users. Craigslist search agents, with ability to search classifieds, that run on mobile/handheld devices are increasing in popularity with ubiquitous internet connectivity, convenience and speed. AnveShA is an automatic search and monitoring agent for craigslist that has been developed for Android platforms. AnveShA provides easy access and a rich feature-set that is not available in the state-of-the-art craigslist search applications available on the Android market. AnveShA has been developed to provide the user a rapid and intelligent search agent that can proactively search and monitor classifieds for desired products, contact sellers and increase the chances of obtaining the desired product at the best possible price. To achieve this, AnveShA has many unique features like the ability to schedule and execute automatic searches, search classifieds based on geographical location, automatically respond to classifieds, store price history for classifieds, get comparative prices from other retail/shopping websites, store favorite classifieds/reminder lists and predict the offer price based on a number of parameters. With such unique features, AnveSha assists users or resellers to find desired products at the best possible prices on Craigslist and hence have a significant advantage over the competition. / text

Title: Exogenous factors selected for the development of football talent Targets: The aim of this study was to characterize selected exogenous factors influencing the development of football talent. Find out how and how much these factors influence the football talents in the Czech Republic. Methods: In the work was used qualitative research. Structured interview method was applied to obtain information from agents and football coaches of youth teams. The questionnaire method with open questions was applied to the football talent and stakeholders of football grounds. Comparison method was used to compare the information. Results: The results summarize the degree of influence and share of each factor in the development of football talent in the Czech Republic. Results from questionnaires and interviews are presented in a written summary and presented in the same order in which questions were asked. Keywords: Talent, football, football agent

Software agents are well-suited to assisting users with routine, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks in various educational environments. In order to achieve complex tasks effectively, humans and agents sometimes need to work together. However, some issues in human agent interaction have not been solved properly, such as delegation, trust and privacy. The agent research community has focused on technologies for constructing autonomous agents and techniques for collaboration among agents. Little attention has been paid to supporting interactions between humans and agents. p* The objectives of this research are to investigate how easy it might be for a user to program his/her agent, how users behave when given the ability to program their agents, whether access to necessary help resources can be improved, and whether such a system can facilitate collaborative learning. Studying users concerns about their privacy and how an online learning environment can be built to protect users privacy are also interesting issues to us. <p>In this thesis two alternative systems were developed for programmable agents in which a human user can define a set of rules to direct an agents activities at execution time. The systems were built on top of a multi-agent collaborative learning environment that enables a user to program his or her agent to communicate with other agents and to monitor the activities of other users and their agents. These systems for end user programmable agents were evaluated and compared. The result demonstrated that an end-user programming environment is able to meet users individual needs on awareness information, facilitate the information exchange among the users, and enhance the communication between users within a virtual learning environment. This research provides a platform for investigating concerns over user privacy caused by agent programmability.

Software agents are well-suited to assisting users with routine, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks in various educational environments. In order to achieve complex tasks effectively, humans and agents sometimes need to work together. However, some issues in human agent interaction have not been solved properly, such as delegation, trust and privacy. The agent research community has focused on technologies for constructing autonomous agents and techniques for collaboration among agents. Little attention has been paid to supporting interactions between humans and agents. p* The objectives of this research are to investigate how easy it might be for a user to program his/her agent, how users behave when given the ability to program their agents, whether access to necessary help resources can be improved, and whether such a system can facilitate collaborative learning. Studying users concerns about their privacy and how an online learning environment can be built to protect users privacy are also interesting issues to us. <p>In this thesis two alternative systems were developed for programmable agents in which a human user can define a set of rules to direct an agents activities at execution time. The systems were built on top of a multi-agent collaborative learning environment that enables a user to program his or her agent to communicate with other agents and to monitor the activities of other users and their agents. These systems for end user programmable agents were evaluated and compared. The result demonstrated that an end-user programming environment is able to meet users individual needs on awareness information, facilitate the information exchange among the users, and enhance the communication between users within a virtual learning environment. This research provides a platform for investigating concerns over user privacy caused by agent programmability.

Virtual Software Corporations (VSCs) are a novel and important organisational form for large-scale software development. The increased complexity of this development environment requires the use of tools to support human actors in undertaking their tasks, which in turn require modelling solutions able to capture the VSC specific issues. One of the key aspects identified for software development in a VSC setting is the need to support co-ordination. One approach in the development of support for coordination in heterogeneous environments in respect to processes and support tools, such as VSCs, is the use of commitment management. The purpose of this thesis is to define a formalism suitable for capturing and managing commitments, as a means to support co-ordination. This is done by first analysing existing VSCs, and determining the requirements for co-ordination support. Consequently a formalism is defined to address the requirements. The formalism is based on a commitment modelling approach and deontic logic, a modal logic, which is used to manage the commitments. The defined formalism is the basis of a prototype support system, which is used for testing and evaluating. The evaluation has focused on identifying the level of support provided for the initial requirements. To this end three process examples have been used: the initial case study, the study of an independent VSC and the example of a desired process for software configuration management.The results indicate that the formalism, through the use of the prototype system, is able to represent and to manage commitments, as the most important issues in coordinating VSC software development. Thus it has a significant contribution as a modelling approach and it was shown to be applicable to realistic process scenarios.

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